[ih] 25th anniversary of the arlan wireless howto

[Dave Taht]

25 years ago today I sat on the roof of my house, in the rain, after
re-aligning my pre-wifi-wireless router's antenna, which after 7
months of effort we had finally got running for a week solid... and
wondered where wifi and wireless technologies might go. I gave myself
a cold a few days before... by sitting up there, in the rain, for so
long, marvelling into the fog my signal disappeared into...

This was pre-blog, pre archive.org, pre-google:

"11/5/98 - We're up continuously now for nearly a week. Greg sends out
email gloating that the the wireless stuff was more reliable than the
ADSL line was...
11/6/98 - The antenna gets knocked askew by pouring rain and winds.
This happens, of course, at about 4 AM, midway through my download of
redhat 5.2.

I crawl up on the roof at dawn in my bathrobe and realalign the
antenna by eye... it works again!! - and god himself is spitting down
on the house, I can barely see the trees at the end of our lot.

I start writing up this report in the hope that it would be useful to
others. It absolutely pouring rain, and my ping times to the valley
occilate between 12 and 17 ms. Greg said he knew when he sent that
mail out about our great wireless uptime something bad would happen. I
said: 'don't do that, then'.

11/10/98 - I stay home from work (sick) and take a stab at finishing
this report. Of course it's pouring rain and the antenna gets knocked
around so back up on the roof I go. While on the roof, I have a
revelation - despite all the hassles and expense, the ups and the
downs, this project has been FUN, and I wouldn't have missed mucking
around with all this technology for the world.

This system costs only a little more a month than hybrid cable, offers
full bidirectional near-T1 bandwidth, has lower latency than anything,
and ultimately will cost much less per month than the major
alternatives (ISDN, 56K, T1) in our location."

Did not have a grammar check then!

https://the-edge.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-invented-embedded-linux-based.html


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Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos