Mission
The original mission of PWN was mostly experimental, focused on using off-the-shelf wireless devices or PCs operating under Linux, to establish 802.11b links over the city of Patras. The main effort of the founders was to evaluate the performance of the TCP/IP protocol suite, over error-prone wireless links, while applying several protocol boosters at the link layer.
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