Wireless network questions

[Bill Nash]

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