If you think setting up a wireless network is difficult in your living room, try the Antarctic. For the last seven years scientists in Antarctica have been setting up access points and repeaters in sub-zero temperatures and 80 mile per hour winds. To the hundreds of scientists stationed there, wireless gives a big morale boost and increases their efficiency. Kent Colby, Senior Communications Tech with the National Science Foundation, told us what it is like to be the “Wi-Fi guy” down south.
Via [tomshardware.com]
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