Last year MAKE was invited to try out Boeing's Connexion Wi-Fi (wireless) service on their planes. It worked as expected, and now 13 months later it's disappointing to hear the service isn't going to take off, literally.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:41
You need a Meraki (wireless mesh router) somewhere to use this, but it's all part of a free internet effort for low-income housing - using one of the Merkai's and these Wi-Fi repeaters it looks like you could cover up to 4 apartments with a total of 50 on one DSL line.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:41
A lot of hotels, coffee shops, and airports are sporting pay-per-hour 802. 11 service these days. In most cases, you'll be presented with what appears to be an open hotspot and a DHCP server will give you an IP address.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:40
tnkgrl spent some time exploring the motherboard of her Eee PC. Looking for available USB ports, she was able to hijack the USB trace that goes to the mini PCIe slot used by the Atheros wireless card.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:39
BrutalByte writes - "In this tutorial, I will show you how to install a wireless game adapter into your XBOX internally so that you can have a wireless connection, where available, without the extra hardware.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:39
Simon @ Scitoys shows you how to build a computer controlled wireless transmitter - "How would you like to send text messages to your friends without wires, and without an Internet connection, and without paying monthly fees? In this project we will build a very simple radio transmitter that you attach to a serial port on your computer.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:38
Tanais writes "This is a follow up to an article I did shoehorning an ordinary Lucent Card into an iBook's Airport slot -- that was published in the Make: blog here This time I decided to use the same Lucent card but with a pair of DIY "coil" antennae to boost the signal of the Airport enough to reach me through two stone walls of my home.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:38
(screenshot from James Kendrick's blog entry)
I had this problems a couple of years ago when Verizon upgraded southern Rhode Island from 1xRTT to 1xEV-DO.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:36
MAKE pal Mark writes - "Well, my last project involved this Lucent WaveLAN-card I managed to cramp into my old iBook. . . But I bought a couple of them and now I did a write-up on how to get an eMate wireless with one of those cards" - Link.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:35
Here's a follow up from our previous coverage on Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 - the DIY FM station and one of the only village radio stations on the Asian sub-continent was shut down - "India's authorities are being urged to relent after shutting a popular community radio station in northern Bihar state for not having a licence.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:33