Hacker Friendly

This past weekend, I helped to establish a 101 Km (62.7 mile) wireless link from Trieste to Piancavallo, Italy. This was part of my work at the 2007 ICTP school on wireless. The gory details of the shot are up on the wiki, but here is the executive summary:

For the Trieste end of [...]

Details of last April’s 279 km world record wireless link have been published by Silicon Chip Magazine in Australia.
If you’re not a Silicon Chip subscriber, the original write-up is still available in English and Spanish.

Here are a few bits of Hacker Friendly-related news:

How To Accelerate Your Internet was mentioned in the “Bytes for All” column in the December 2006 issue of i4d Magazine. i4d is a print and online magazine with paper circulation throughout India, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa, so this is great exposure for the [...]

The Workshop on Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks at the ICTP has closed. Fortunately, we were able to get the PDF of the bandwidth book to them just in time for local printing.
The presentation videos are available now as well. Just in time, plenty of high-bandwidth content to fill your low-bandwidth pipe. [...]

Ermanno Pietrosemoli and Javier Triviño (of EsLaRed) and Carlo Fonda (from the ICTP) have successfully established a whopping 279 km wifi link in Venezuela. They did it using a pair of Linksys WRT54Gs running DD-WRT and some recycled satellite dish antennas (no amplifiers!)
A blurb about the project (in Spanish) is up here, along with [...]