Re: WiFi range ...

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:00:41 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 31 May 2026 21:19:08 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:

> My company's high reliability radios use essentially 20 year old WiFi
> technology, and we have customers than routinely run them over distances
> of 5-10 km.

In the early days of wi-fi, when many people were using it to set up
point-to-point links to extend access to those limited early broadband
deployments, it was common to use an empty Pringles chip can as a
high-gain antenna.