In 1998, ABR was successfully implemented<ref>{{citation |title="Mobile Computing Magazine Interview Article - First practical ad hoc wireless network implementation outdoors, 1999 |url=http://init.unizar.es/images/MobiCompMag1999.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Implementation and evaluation of an adaptive routing protocol for infrastructureless mobile networks, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 2000. |pages=20–27|chapter-url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/885465/|doi=10.1109/ICCCN.2000.885465|chapter=Implementation and evaluation of an adaptive routing protocol for infrastructureless mobile networks|year=2000|last1=Toh|first1=C.-K.|last2=Lin|first2=G.|last3=Delwar|first3=M.|isbn=978-0-7803-6494-3}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Evaluating the communication performance of an ad hoc wireless network, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2000 |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=YTwSsH4AAAAJ&citation_for_view=YTwSsH4AAAAJ:WF5omc3nYNoC}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Experimenting with an Ad Hoc wireless network, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 28 Issue 3, Dec. 2000 |journal=ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review|volume=28|issue=3|pages=21–29|doi=10.1145/377616.377622|year=2000|last1=Toh|first1=C.-K.|last2=Chen|first2=Richard|last3=Delwar|first3=Minar|last4=Allen|first4=Donald}}</ref> into the Linux kernel, in various different branded laptops (IBM Thinkpad, COMPAQ, Toshiba, etc.) that are equipped with [[WaveLAN]] 802.11a PCMCIA wireless adapters. A working 6-node wide [[wireless ad hoc network]] spanning a distance of over 600 meters was achieved and the successful event was published in Mobile Computing Magazine in 1999. Various tests were performed with the network:
# Transmission of up to 500MBytes of data from source to destination over 3-hop route.
