RE: home networking

["Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>]

> The distance of a wireless can be dramatically be increased with a
> directional antenna.  A tech site (Sorry, don't know which one) made a
> directional wireless gun and was picking off routers left and right.

There was an interesting article in one of the mags a few years back, where this
fellow lived up a mountain with no broadband access.  He built an unpowered
repeater, and tapped into a Starbucks hotspot down the mountain.

Randall