do you happen to have plans available for those "cantennas" (aka pringles
antenna)?
Mage
On Sunday 09 March 2003 03:53 pm, 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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