I got a neighbor who claims he is getting his outdoor laptop 2.4GHZ signal off of stray power line emissions (not his own) from a nearby power pole. Is this possible? How?
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14 years ago
On 20 Dec 2008 00:37:01 +0100, dumbstudent wrote in :
No.
In a Hollywood movie. ;)
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14 years ago
More likely a pole-mounted AP hanging off the local cableco's plant, which they increasingly offer to enable mobile triple-play.
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News wrote in news:SZOdnQ_qt6gGotHUnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@speakeasy.net:
sorry, never heard of this before, what is meant by mobile triple-play? What does a pole-mounted AP look like generally?
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Mobile is mobile, triple-play is bundled cable TV/internet/VOIP.
The outdoor/public AP facilitates mobile access to the bundle.
See:
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And: http://209.123.109.180/shownews/98437 Others pole-mount the AP. Because cablecos are sometimes charged an additional pole fee, they simply hang their APs from the cable plant.
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Close. He's probably connected via a municipal wireless system. The local government subsidizes an ISP or operates their own ISP. It's usually a mesh network using mesh radios mounted on telephone poles, street lights, building tops, monuments, and public buildings. It's not really coming from the power lines, although it may seem to be that way because the poletop radios are often mounted on power poles.