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Connect phones with hot spot

Timmos85
By Timmos85
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Hi guys,

 

When i was on holiday a few weeks ago i had bad wifi on my tablet in a nice spot where i wanted to watch some netflix so i made a hot spot with my phone to extent the range of the wifi.

This made me wonder if it would be possible to connect like; let say a 100 phones  together and extend the range for much further.

I think this is a cool experiment for linus and crew to do, and i am currious how far they would get and how bad the data loss wil be.

 

Greetings form a dutch guy ( so pardon me for the bad english :) )

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Timmos85 said:

Hi guys,

 

When i was on holiday a few weeks ago i had bad wifi on my tablet in a nice spot where i wanted to watch some netflix so i made a hot spot with my phone to extent the range of the wifi.

This made me wonder if it would be possible to connect like; let say a 100 phones togeter en extend the range for much further.

I think this is a cool experiment for linus and crew to do, and i am currious how far they would get and how bad the data loss wil be.

 

Greetings form a dutch guy ( so pardon me for the bad english :) )

 

 

While this is possible your speed by be horrible by the time the last phone has connected. i had the same idea, thinking that i could chain hotspots so i could have wifi in a nearby park. LOL 

Technology is NEVER easy :(

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2 minutes ago, Trilex said:

While this is possible your speed by be horrible by the time the last phone has connected. i had the same idea, thinking that i could chain hotspots so i could have wifi in a nearby park. LOL 

yes eventually the speed wil be horrible offcourse! but it think it wil be fun to wacht a real life experiment form linus and crew. currious how far the can extend the range and keep an acceptable speed 

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2 minutes ago, Timmos85 said:

yes eventually the speed wil be horrible offcourse! but it think it wil be fun to wacht a real life experiment form linus and crew. currious how far the can extend the range and keep an acceptable speed 

Agreed

 

Technology is NEVER easy :(

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Don't phones only support hotspot when you are using data (3G/4G) and not from wifi to a hotspot?

 

Anyways, even if that weren't the case, you are crippling speeds and especially latency at a certain point. When you want to use 100 phones, it's probably better to buy those Ubiquiti satellites (nanobeam) to extend your range by a considerable amount + get decent speeds and latency.

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Check out Linus' long distance networking series, they basically took a signal and broadcasted it 10 miles.

I once gave Luke and Linus pizza.

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