A page to collect 'long shots' (sorted by distance). The goal is not (only) to break records, but also to get a feeling of what can be done with what.
279 km (173 miles) Enlace Pico del Águila- El Baúl: 279 Kms de puro Wi-Fi!!!
201 km (125 miles) DefCon 2005 WiFi shootout slashdot 01aug2005,
132 km (82 miles), Utah, using parabolas and amplification (1500 mW) Slashdot 10dec2003, Rob Flickenger's blog, experiment's site
116 km (72 miles), California, using parabolas and amplification (Computer World, HPWREN)
110 km (68 miles) in Poland (Slashdot23sep2003), the polish article (one of the translations)
110 km (68 miles) in Poland (again) : "Wi-Fi - Rekord S'wiata - 110 km @ 2.4GHz"
89 km (55 miles) DefCon Wifi Shootout 2004, 10-foot dishes
70.5 km (43.8 miles), Spain, using parabolas (CanariaWireless.net)
65.5 km (40.7 miles), Spain, using a slotted waveguide and a parabolic-Biquad antenna. http://www.paramowifix.net
61.1 km (38 miles), Downtown Seattle to MtBaldi using 24dBi parabolics, no amps (SeattleWireless)
56.6 km (35.2 miles), Nevada, USA, using home built horn (Defcon Wi-fi Shootout)
52 km (32.3 miles), Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) http://melbourne.wireless.org.au using 25dBi grid pack to 180 degree slotted waveguide.
48 km, Perth (Western Australia), using a satellite dish with biquad feed, connecting to a 180 degree waveguide
45.0 km, TacomaNode to MtBaldi using a 14.5dBi yagi and a 24dBi parabolic, no amps (SeattleWireless)
42.0 km, Netherlands, SMC-Senao, 2 * 24 dBi dishes (SNR 17 dB)
36.4 km, Belgium, using a SlottedWaveguide, a Yagi and a parabola (Florenville-Arlon)
33.7 km (20.9 miles), California, using parabolas (Oreilly)
26.4 km , Perth (UK) using 10 dBi omni + Parabola 24 dBi (http://www.consume.net/mhonarc/thenet/msg02844.html)
24 km, Lausanne/Switzerland, using 2 Paraolic 24 dBi by Submusic Team photos and explications (in french)
10 miles (TestingTenMileLink)
15 km, Belgium, using a SlottedWaveguide and a CardboardHorn (LouvainWaterloo)
9.5 km, Belgium, using 2 CardboardHorn (Liege20020615)
5 km, Belgium using DirectionalWaveguide (tin cans), (Liege20020401)
3.5 km, Belgium, using 2 unmodified LinksysWET11
A contest 01-AUG-2003 : The First Annual Defcon Wi-fi Shootout (Las Vegas) -- The contest results are available.
An article on Long Shots Wifi Timing.
