To be completely honest, I actually heard about this sometime ago. But I thought this article did a nice job of capturing the ‘feeling’ that went with accomplishing this feat of distance while using a Wi-Fi signal.

A small wireless Internet service provider in Idaho and a wireless equipment start-up claim to have set a new record for transmitting data across a wireless link this week.

Microserv Computer Technologies, based in Idaho Falls, and Trango Broadband Wireless, a fixed-wireless broadband equipment maker, announced on Tuesday that they wirelessly transmitted data over unlicensed spectrum 137.2 miles. [Read the rest]