wasn't there something on slashdot a while ago about doing something 
like this (probably over shorter distances and nowhere near the 
bandwidth) with LED's and homebuilt?

Matt
> 
> There's a yarn on Slashdot tonight about a (no way am I going to 
> register just to read it) NY Times story on laser-based infrared 
> wireless LOS connections. Did a quick google and came up with 
> <" target="l">http://laserinfraredwireless.com/> which says 
> infrared will do gigabyte
> 
> data transfers over 1000 metres with zero latency. You can get 
> fast 
> Ethernet T1 speeds (100Mbps) over 4000m. No word on cost. Mmmmm, 
> gigabyte ...
> - Barry



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