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Archive for March, 2002

Bay Area Community LAN Meeting

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 27th, 2002

B>Bay Area Wireless Users Group March Meeting BAWUG held their March 2002 meeting March 21st and featured speakers on UltraWideband and Security. Where: Santa Clara University When: 03/21/02 @ 7:30pm Who: Vincent Coli from ther Wire & Location on UltraWideBand (UWB) technologies. What’s UWB, how does it work, will it change the world, etc. Ikeda [...]

Join the Community LAN Revolution!

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 27th, 2002

Get on an old PC and install Linux. Many community lan members bought portable $100 Stylistic 1000 webtablets and use those as an AP. Install an 802.11b card in your PC like the Zcomax X-300 card. It makes adding an external antenna easy. Load the (free) Linux software into your PC. NoCat software works well [...]

Java One Showcase

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 27th, 2002

Java One Showcases Content Providers The JavaOne Developer Conference showcased products from more than 70 companies and lots of wireless solutions. They included: Mobile Messaging Services: FourBit Group, RIM, & Unbound Enterprise: Xora, RIM, & SAP Gaming: Com2Us, helloNetwork, Cybiko, JAMDAT Mobile, MobileGameKorea, Mobliss, Namco Ltd., nGame, Nokia, NuvoStudios, Palet Games, and LLC Streaming media: [...]

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 27th, 2002

5 Gigs gets down The Linksys new product of the week is their 5 Gig WAP 54a using the Interil Prism-3 that don’t need no IF. This could be interesting as it is one of the first products NOT to use an Atheros chipset for 802.11a Tim Higgins reports that the first shot of the [...]

Michael Posts KGW story

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Michael Codanti Reports: I have made a medium quality WMV (Windows Media) file out of all three parts [of the KGW Personal Telco story] and it only comes out to 1.7megs. You can get it from here (Slow off of my server, feel free to host it somewhere with more bandwidth). I am going to [...]

Community LAN Resource Links

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

On-Line Resources: Public Community LANS Adam Shand’s Community LAN List Austin Wireless BAWUG Boston Wireless FreeNetworks.org Linux-wlan NoCat NYC Wireless PersonalTelco Seattle Wireless Additional News and Information Resources include: SmallNetBuilder.com with new products , 802.11g news and 802.11a news 80211-Planet Glenn Fleishman’s 802.11 Weblogger Alan Reiter’s Weblog Electronic Engineering Times (focus and features) Comms Design [...]