[Cialug] wifi router

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

Needed this yesterday to support the claim:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/22/1545221/Space-Station-Astronauts-Gain-Internet-Access?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

The Intertubes have broken atmo....


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:18 AM, <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the theory's sound perhaps for 802.11n packets going straight
> up...but...then....<mind boggled>
>
> --DONE
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:45 AM, James Shoemaker <james at dhlake.com> wrote:
>
>> Tim Wilson wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Josh More
>> > <morej at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:
>> >
>> >> CAT5 uses twisted pair to prevent the weight issues.  WiFi can't.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hmm, the reasoning that I heard was different:
>> > 1. The faster you go, the quicker you'll escape Earth's gravity.
>> > 2. When you escape Earth's gravity, you'll be weightless.
>> >
>> > Therefore, the faster things go, the more weightless they become.  Since
>> > packets travel faster on wires, the packets actually became weightless.
>> > Since wireless is slower, the packets aren't weightless.
>>
>>    Doesn't that violate special relativity that theorizes that the
>> faster you go the heavier you get?
>>
>> James
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