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Old Jan 7, 2007, 04:10 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by ktr View Post
damn! only 30 miles away...grrr, i wonder if i can make a uber high power antenna...but i guess the power bill be over the cost of free being worth it...

this is not new for the bayarea...things like:

metrofi

google for there home city...mountain view

community based Alameda wireless...

etc...

free wifi for all ftw!

also SF already had a pretty decent community based free wifi in certain parts of residential downtown.
I've read about people make all kinds of ghetto wifi antenna.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ghett...ient=firefox-a
The only thing is that you have to build a pretty big antenna
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