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Intel employees put hotspot on the North Pole |
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Written by Kory Mohr
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Friday, 15 April 2005 |
Amended from PC World:
Intel is contributing to global warming, the company admitted Thursday.
Not the bad kind, though. Two employees at Intel Russia have erected
what may be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi hotspot 130 kilometers
from the North Pole.
The hotspot was built in the Arctic Region at
the Barneo ice camp, a tent complex used by scientists, researchers and
rescue crews during the month of April, when ice conditions are safe.
Despite the challenges, the employees installed a
802.11b/g access point at the camp's headquarters and then established
a WLAN (wireless LAN) using four laptops with Intel's Centrino mobile
technology, the company said. Another computer was placed outdoors and
connected to a satellite phone to provide the network with Internet.
The hotspot could be accessed by anyone at the camp who had a mobile or
pocket PC, Intel said. The equipment survived the cold and worked
reliably, according to Intel Russia's Vsevolod Sementsov. The main
problems were battery life and "backseat drivers," Sementsov said.
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