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The hot spot was built at the Barneo ice camp in the Arctic region
April 14, 2005 12:00 PM ETIDG News Service -
Intel Corp. said today that two employees at Intel Russia have erected what may be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi "hot spot." Its location: 78 miles from the North Pole.
The hot spot was built in the Arctic region at the Barneo ice camp, a tent complex used by scientists, researchers and rescue crews during the month of April, when ice conditions are safe. Still, the camp environment is never ideal for computer devices, as the air temperature rarely rises above -30 Celsius, according to Intel.
Such extreme cold is bad for computer equipment. Humidity inside the living tents, caused by the differences in indoor and outdoor temperatures, causes condensation to form on components. What's more, batteries lose power rapidly in the low temperatures.
Despite the challenges, the employees installed an 802.11b/g access point at the camp's headquarters and then established a wireless LAN using four laptops with Intel's Centrino mobile technology, the company said. Another computer was placed outdoors and connected to a satellite phone to provide the network with Internet. The hot spot could be accessed by anyone at the camp who had a mobile or Pocket PC.
The equipment survived the cold and worked reliably, according to Intel Russia's Vsevolod Sementsov. The main problems were battery life and "backseat drivers," Sementsov said.
Although the hot spot has already been taken down, one Centrino-based laptop was left for polar researchers at the "North Pole 33" ice-drifting station, which is expected to deploy its own WLAN soon, Sementsov said.
Intel pointed to the experiment as an example of how mobile technology allows users to work anywhere.
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