Robert Cringley’s battles with location are legend. He’s been chronicling his attempts to live in the quiet California countryside and still get high-speed Internet access for years now, and his latest installment is a doozy. Realizing that but for a giant hill between his place and downtown Santa Rosa’s cloud of high-speed wireless Internet access he could get great service over 802.11, Cringley climbed a nearby mountain, scaled a likely looking oak tree, and mounted a $100 repeater to it. Now he can bounce a signal off that mountain from his house to Santa Rosa and make a 2Mbs connections over a five mile run.
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