Roaming wifi

Jeff Busch Jeff.Busch at lewisbuilds.com
Tue Nov 22 10:23:07 PST 2005


How is Community Transit out of Snohomish providing wifi while in motion?  They provide wifi on some of their bus routes from Edmonds/Everett to Seattle.

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-bounces at seattlewireless.net [mailto:dev-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Casey Halverson
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:57 AM
To: SeattleWireless Development List
Subject: RE: Roaming wifi

Works fine with a phased array.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev-bounces at seattlewireless.net 
> [mailto:dev-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Hakman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:59 AM
> To: SeattleWireless Development List
> Subject: Re: Roaming wifi
> 
> The pointing of a satellite dish is pretty precise - it's far from "if 
> you can see the sky". It would be fairly tricky to make an 
> autopositioning mount that could track well enough to be ok'ed by the 
> satellite operator for transmitting - they get pretty touchy about 
> cross-pol and spatter on adjacent satellites.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 11/22/05, Sven Aerts <aertssven at mac.com> wrote:
> > What happens if you have a sattelite internet provider? if
> you can see
> > the sky I guess you can get internet ?
> > I thought that was common in the USA?
> > sven
> >
> > On 24-sep-05, at 20:41, Jesús Rodríguez wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm thinkin' about be connected while i'm driving. I
> don't know if
> > > anyone has developed software to control 2 wifi cards like one 
> > > virtual interface. If we can establish 2 connections (active and 
> > > secondary), we can change between APs without lose data. The 
> > > software may control the diferent APs in the "active" zone and 
> > > select the best like active and another like secondary.
> While we're
> > > moving, the software may can detect signal changes from
> the APs and
> > > change the status of the connections (change secondary to
> active, or
> > > connect to another AP without loss connection).
> > >
> > > Is that possible?
> > >
> > > Thanks



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