Can 802.11 Become A Viable Last-Mile Alternative?

NikiScevak writes "As telco's around the world move from government hands to private investors the incentive for them to create compeition at the wholesale DSL level drops dramatically. The CSIRO in Australia are investigating the use of Wireless LAN technology 802.11b as a means through which to provide alternative broadband access, achieving range of up to 7km with standard components."

Re:Already doing it

[jukal]

> The stupid fucks couldn't use repeaters or use current technology to stretch the line

If the arguments for using different aproach came from the same pool as the previous line, I bet the customer chose wlan just to play with you ;)

When I was your age....

[hubbabubba]

... we walked 5,280 feet to school! Without any shoes! In the snow! Took over 5 boxes of 1000ft Cat5 to lay a cable so we could find our way home again! And we STILL came up a football field short of the front door! But we LIKED IT!

Re:tired of the insecurity troll

[Beliskner]

Want security?

Forget security, every company should run 802.11 WEP-disabled with no VPN and no encryption.

This way companies are supporting the ultimate open-source. If M$ was an open-source corporation /. wouldn't bitch about them so much (as in all internal network traffic and servers open)

Damn you *BSD and *nix people giving companies security, making them closed. Using open source code to make corporations closed. Oh man. You *nix and *BSD people are self-defeating.

Re:Ugh....

[zsmooth]

The current discussion is not about using 802.11 in an office, which is arguably a bad idea, but using it as a last-mile solution to the home. Compared to other solutions (cable, dsl), it's really not any less secure.