11h.net originated from the idea of creating a new wireless networking protocol, entitled eight-oh-two.11H. Essentially, the protocol would address known security exploits in the current “Wi-Fi” and “WEP” standards and allow:
* User-customizable frequency range from 900MHz to 30GHz
* Efficient error checking with minimal overhead
* Integrated VPN Support
Unfortunately, the Technical Advisory Committee at our University deemed this as impossible for a Senior Project and was rejected.
Since I had already registered the domain name 11h.net, we decided to call our group the 11h group. 11h later proposed, designed, created, and demonstrated our accepted Senior Project: The MagLev Elevator.
All of our senior project management, content versioning, and collaboration was conducted through 11h.net. This was made possible by a great open source projected called NetOffice. It fulfilled all of the requirements of our Senior Project Class and Advisory Committee by providing Gnatt charts, weekly progress reports, and version control. The entire 11h website was originally hosted off a Comcast 256k/3M cable connection from a modified cabinet sitting in the dining room of a horrible apartment. Now, 11h.net sits in that same cabinet (now modified for better airflow) on a 1M/1.5M DSL connection in the closet of my Condo right on the river. The 11h.net servers will always be the foundation of keeping the 11h.net group together (although one group member took off to Arizona and she hasn’t really contacted us since… if you read this, send us an e-mail! We miss you!).
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