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Highway LAN

Casey West: "It was obvious that we needed to liberate ourselves from the phone companies. Any normal person would have stopped at this point and bought two-way radios. For better or worse, I'm not a normal person. I'm a geek, a geek beyond reason. A wireless network was in order."

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"Meng and dha connected using talk on Schwern's laptop and we spent a good 100 miles just finding things to talk about. That's what happens when you work hard to build something that's minimally useful."

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"There was one major problem that destroyed our network. If a large truck drove directly between us is creates the same effect as a careless backhoe discovering your fiber network."

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"All I know is that my friends and I made the most out of an otherwise boring all-day drive. Wireless networking has thousands of undiscovered applications with no end in sight. Do your part to uncover the useful bits."