{"id":392261,"date":"2010-03-05T04:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/mit-team-converting-trash-into-high-speed-wireless-network-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T04:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:40:22","slug":"mit-team-converting-trash-into-high-speed-wireless-network-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392261","title":{"rendered":"MIT team converting trash into high-speed wireless network in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/05\/fabfi_nGccX_69.jpg\" alt=\"fabfi\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Wi-Fi network made using recycled materials. <\/p>\n<p>Members of MIT\u2019s Bits and Atoms lab, working in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, are building a wireless network made from locally sourced junk. Dubbed FabFi, the wireless network includes recycled board, wire, a plastic tub and some cans as well. The project resulted in 25 simultaneous live nodes enabling the residents to enjoy a stable connection all over the place. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The MIT crew is also solving difficulties in sourcing routers by shipping them over. The reflector links up just shy of -71dBm at about 1km, giving it a gain of somewhere between 5 and 6dBi.  <\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5486016\/jalalabads-fab-fi-how-junk-was-turned-into-a-high+speed-wireless-network\">Gizmodo<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/03\/03\/building-high-speed.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Wi-Fi network made using recycled materials. Members of MIT\u2019s Bits and Atoms lab, working in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, are building a wireless network made from locally sourced junk. Dubbed FabFi, the wireless network includes recycled board, wire, a plastic tub and some cans as well. The project resulted in 25 simultaneous live nodes enabling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}