Burning Man Wi-Fi: Raines Cohen, veteran Mac god and doer of good deeds, signed his latest post to the BAWUG wireless list with the following tech detail from Burning Man: from Black Rock City, Nevada (site of Burning Man) via Tachyon satellite wireless (thanks to Cliff Cox of Oregon Country Fair Embassy), current initial 802.11b coverage (SSID "internet", open) covers about 2/3rds of the city (soon to be Nevada's fifth largest) from a single node on Playa Info's tower "downtown" at Center Camp, will be upgraded through addition of repeaters as the city grows and as PlayaNET public-access kiosks and intranet network comes online.
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