Very Long Distance WiFi Networks

Rob FlickengRob Flickenger

Steve Okay

Ermanno Pietrosemoli

Marco Zennaro

Carlo Fonda

18 August 2008

802.11 Wi-Fi technology is commonly used for creating wireless networks with a range of about one hundred meters. With careful planning and proper antennas, this same equipment can be used to make point-to-point links of hundreds of kilometers. This paper presents a successful 279 km link made by wireless experts in Venezuela, and a permanent 133 km test network in northern Italy for ongoing research.

Published in: NSDR ’08: Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions. Pages 1 – 6.

URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1397705.1397707

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1397705.1397707

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