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Unified Modeling Language - PAT noted in TELECOM Digest V23 #374: [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not think in any shopping center parking lot his argument would be very convincing. Please correct me on this as needed, but I have been told that wireless routers only have an optimal range of 200-300 feet. When I put mine in recently, I was told I could go outside my house and maybe the house on either side of me or the house across the street and still reach it. But the house on my west side is vacant, a large size double lot separates me from the house on the east side, and I know the people directly across the street from me are very unlikely to know about or care about computers at all, let alone wireless ones. When I go out on my own back porch with a laptop, depending exactly on how I sit in my chair allows me to keep or lose the connection. And this is a very rural area; I would notice almost immediatly any car parked in front of my house or in the alley on my west side. Plus which I have told the router to only respond to the name given to the card, and I have told the card not to broadcast its name, plus I use some encryption, so I feel relatively safe. Now my friend who got me the card and wireless router did say if I mounted a highly directional antenna out of my window I could probably go 'one mile or so' and still get the signal. Is that correct? So when a person parks in a parking lot at a shopping center, how likely is it they will receive signals from some store in the mall? My frame of reference is the only thing like it we have here in town, the Walmart Super Center on the west side of town, and I just cannot picture such a scene there, but maybe I am wrong. PAT]I would guess that the type of equipment that Lowe's uses are a bitmore robust than consumer grade stuff as far as signal range goes. Afriend of mine works for Lowe's, traveling to various stores doingaudits. I'll ask him just what the expected range he gets with hiscompany laptop.Quite a few truck stops offer wireless connections, and they are*huge*. They would need to have signal coverage bigger than a fewhundred feet.Last month, I was sitting in the passenger seat of a car doing somework on my own new laptop while driving through a metro interchange.It amazed me how many spots kept popping up. Where they protected? Whoknows. Since then, I have disabled the connection. I have my ownPCMCIA card from Sprint, so I don't need to search for available spotsfor reasons other folks have posted in response to the originalarticle.Eric Friedebach/Favorite OnStar commercial: crying woman drops keys in toilet/
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