Re: Fw: Wireless LAN - external antenna and remote sites

[Matthew Keay <m@xxxxxxx>]

consume.net consume.net consume.net! :)

You could get away with 2 Linux boxes + cards with yagi antennas all
pretty cheaply. (Maybe what you'd save using cards instead of APs?)

Line of sight? point and ping? :P hehehe.

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Gareth Cook/UK/IBM wrote:

>
> Something I want to investigate. My friend lives a mile down the road
and
> I'm thinking line of sight wireless would be a good way for me to get
adsl
> (friends house can get it)
>
> Not sure where to start - would need 2 x APs and 2 x directional
antenna -
> but would need some expertise getting the line of sight sorted (and on
the
> roof)
>
> Any ideas in Surrey area ?
>
> G.
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> Guys,
>
> I know a lot of you have wireless LAN access points in the home
> (many thanks to the kind efforts of Dr John and his M-in-L!). I
think
> a fair few of you have wondered about linking two sites with line
> of sight together too.
>
> A friend and I (he's lurking here somewhere) have long had this
> project in mind. Recently I came across a post on a newsgroup
> from a chap, David Hayes, offering his services to somebody
> asking after this kind of project.
>
> I sent an email to him explaining my requirements and have to say
> he's been absolutely brilliant with information, suggestions,
ideas
> and, in the end, the supply of all the external hardware and
> connectors that I need.
>
> I've now got two small, and nicely priced, 4.2dBi omnidirectional
> antenna that I can mount on the roof. These have a run of coax
> plugged onto them via some nice and meaty looking connectors,
> all waterproofed at the external end. At the other end are a
> further set of chunky connectors onto which screw some pigtails.
>
> We have one LinkSys WAP11 Access Point in my home, and, for
> now at least, we'll use an Orinoco card plugged into a small
> machine at the other end via a PCI->PCCard Adapter (thanks to
> JohnT for getting me these). Thus the two pigtails are slightly
> different, the Orinoco one having a really small and delicate
> adapter on one end and a nice solid screw on lug at the other to
> connect onto the coax cable.
>
> Having already achieve 100m LOS with a Fujitsu + Orinoco to my
> unmodified WAP11 the theory goes that this little effort should
> enable us to have a WLAN link between our houses (and
> probably the rest of the neighbourhood - hope there are some
> other kidults like me around that like playing games!).
>
> I'll be taking some pictures and writing up the whole thing for a
> web article when we actually get it on.
>
> In the meantime, if anybody else has an interest in this type of
> project, I can wholeheartedly recommend Dave's service. He's
> fantastically communicative which is a big bonus in my opinion. He
> currently can't accept plastic, and I believe a website is in the
> making, but this was not a problem for me and I would happily
> deal with him again. He told me he doesn't mind my passing on his
> email address:
>
> "Dave" <Dave@xxxxxxx>
>
> Hope this is of interest to some of you,
>
> Stuart
>
> PS - anybody know a good aerial installer in the Bucks area?! ;-)
>
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> Stuart Booth
> Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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