Wireless network questions

[David Mandala]

Your distance is trivial but you need to get up. You need direct line of
site so put the antenna's on a pole so they see each other over the roof
of the house in between. 2.4 GHz will go 10k your not even .5k just need
LOS and the correct antenna.

Do not go through the house.

For some antenna choices see:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/elepal/antenna1.html
http://www.saunalahti.fi/elepal/antennie.html
http://www.ydi.com/products/24ghz-antennas.php
http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/
http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/helix/index.html
http://www.hdcom.com/2.4ghzantennas.html
http://www.tux.org/~bball/antenna/
http://wireless.gumph.org/articles/homemadeomni.html


On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 15:53, Bill Nash wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Alan Dayley wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:00, David Mandala wrote:
> > > Pigtail MUST be short at least as short as possible <20 feet preferred.
> > > Power falls off fast in cable runs. IBM makes a card with almost 2x the
> > > power of the Lucent cards, I'd use them. Can you just go over the roof,
> > > the extra distance (length of a house) in the air is almost irrelevant.
> >
> > Yes, the distance over the house would be trivial.  I am pretty sure we can
> > arrange things at both ends to accomodate short pigtails.  Thanks.
> >
> 
> 	An other (slightly costly) alternative is heavy coax for your
> external 'CANtenna' run. If you're not talking about long distance, the
> signal loss will likely be negligible. When I say heavy, I mean *heavy*,
> like RG6. We ran a pair of linksys WAP11s, with actual Pringles cans, over
> about 100 yards, at full speed, using two ~40' runs of RG6 coax. If WAP
> placement is a problem with relation to your antenna, this might help a
> little.
> 
> - billn
> 
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