[plug] Wanted: dirt cheap wireless LAN

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sat Jan 4 21:55:50 WST 2003


On Friday 03 January 2003 06:02 pm, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> If you're a electronic design whiz,

Pity about that. I sometimes fail to destroy things with a soldering iron, 
that's about my limit. (-:

> I know from a friend
> (who is prototyping a commercial implementation) that it is possible to
> turn the basic idea of ronja into a design which can do 100MBps
> over that 1km using laser diodes and a better detector circuit

Would he also consider using laser pointers and making the 10Mb circuit dead 
simple? As in, 2 cheap chips an end and no fancy microwave-style 
oops-I-just-made-a-transformer soldering? (-:

Cheers; Leon



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