{"id":137,"date":"2002-02-13T02:36:21","date_gmt":"2002-02-13T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/the-legend-of-bennett-mountain\/"},"modified":"2002-02-13T02:36:21","modified_gmt":"2002-02-13T09:36:21","slug":"the-legend-of-bennett-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/13\/the-legend-of-bennett-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"The legend of Bennett Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tmay be a myth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/cs\/weblog\/view\/wlg\/1124\">Rob Flickenger<\/a> has his doubts: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt all started last Friday afternoon. We were all buzzing about Cringely and his Passive Repeater. What a fantastic idea! The thought that he got one of these near-urban-legend devices working, on the first try, from up a tree, to low-gain panel antennas in downtown Santa Rosa, without a supporting ground crew (or even so much as a site survey), truly boggled our minds. Especially since it&#8217;s been a point of debate in various community group mailing lists for months as to whether such a design is practical at the low power level that client cards put out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cringeley has been known to pull a little prank or two in the past, so he may be pulling our collective leg again. Linked from Techno-Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/80211b.weblogger.com\/\">802.11b<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>may be a myth. Rob Flickenger has his doubts: It all started last Friday afternoon. We were all buzzing about Cringely and his Passive Repeater. What a fantastic idea! The thought that he got one of these near-urban-legend devices working, on the first try, from up a tree, to low-gain panel antennas in downtown Santa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/13\/the-legend-of-bennett-mountain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The legend of Bennett Mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-2d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}