“New software from researchers at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology makes use of Wi-Fi to link nearby computers without a router,”this ACM TechNews report says.”The WiPeer software is designed to connect computers that are no more than 300 feet apart inside buildings and no more than 900 feet away from each other outside”.From the WiPeer site.”WiPeer was born as a research project at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, to provide peer-to-peer Wi-Fi and home/office networking based collaborative applications such as multiplayer interactive games,chat,search,file sharing,and eventually also collaborative productivity tools.This is through direct communication between the devices and without going through any third party infrastructure or gateway, and without relying on a central server”.