RE: home networking

[Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>]

> 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.

Probably the most widely seen article of this sort, using
a pringles-can antenna, was one of Robert Cringely's articles.
You can probably find it at 

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/


Antennas make a huge difference in radio.