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To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
Subject: Re: an and wi ad-hoc talking 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:46:43 +0800."
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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:33:55 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111111245120.508-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> Dinesh Nair writes:
: would the same scenario work if i had an AP and threw a wireless cloud
: over a say 2-3 mile radius ?

Likely not.  The antennas are very directional.  You can get
non-directional antennas, but they are either huge, or top out at
about 8dBi.

Warner

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