RE: Re: Wireless (again)

["Doogie Brodie" <dbrodie@xxxxxxx>]

>Woah there!
>
>The 5Km range is designed to link two buildings. The high gain is
achieved
>by using a tightly focussed beam. This will only work if 2 parabolic
>antennae are pointing at each other. This won't allow you to have
people
>wandering around using laptops in a 5km radius - otherwise thing of the
>interference problems if everybody in the street had the same setup!

Yeah, I understand that. We currently have one building. Some people are
mo=
ving to a second building very near by. We thought about putting a
wireless=
access point in the first building and having people using it from the sec=
ond building, but the range and reliability made this cheap solution
unsuit=
able for this purpose.

We've now decided to get a wireless bridge between the two buildings. We
wi=
ll install a hub and some cat5 cabling in the new building , which will
all=
connect back to the bridge or whatever hardware it is connected to the ant=
enna. In the existing building, we will have the antenna and other
hardware=
installed to make this work. We are getting a local installation company i=
n to do this, for which they've quoted just over =A33K.

Seperately, we will try and use the Buffalo kit for other purposes inside
t=
he original building, as long as we can get something sorted out with the
s=
hielding in this particular laptop, or just get a new laptop for it.

Does that make sense ? :-)

Cheers


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