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.

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 10:17, Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 01:57, Tony Wasson wrote:
> > I'd recommend going Ad-hoc using cards that support external antennas.
> > Buy cards that allow external antennas (like Lucent/Orinico). Use a PCI
> > adapter for his end.
> > Build/Buy 2 Cantenna's
> > Buy pigtails to connect it up
> >
> > Estimated cost under $200.
> 
> How long can the pigtails be?  At my house, the computer stuff is on the 
> oppisite side of the house from where the CANtenna would be.
> 
> Alan
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