At Black Hat in Las Vegas they have an annual distance competition. Last
year new world record for an un-amplified link was set at 125 miles.
http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/31/unamplified-wifi-distance-record-set-at-125-miles/
Here is a link on using a Sat Dish, and it's basic design has been used
to create up to 10 mile 11Mbps bridge links.
http://www.trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm
My first suggestion was for a non-electronics, non-solder friendly person.
I'd heard of using a wok, but not the collapsible steamer, very cool.
Have fun!
Lots of good places to get more info:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
http://www.seattlewireless.net/
http://martybugs.net/wireless/
http://nocat.net/
Mike
Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast wrote:
Are you talking about our good buddy Simon Ditner? A metal Vegetable
Steamer ????? And Andrew Kholsmith -- Did you REALLY REALLY
REALLY reach 8Km? I just want to hear you say, "Yes I did" :).
I can only begin to imagine the KISS principle! If with simple
technologies we can achieve 8km... I see no barriers reaching 800 km!
Having some background on soldering, electronics and electrical - I
think I can take one of my small offset dish ($15 bux garage sale),
have a laser pointer mounted on the LNB and the small transmitting
antenna from the router on the LNB -- will technically put it on the
focal point & assist in pointing to the right direction. What are
your thoughts?
Oh boy Dave! You got this hamster running in my head now.
Cheers!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Donovan"
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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] VoIP & Wireless - Antenna recommendation
One of the funniest improvised antenna stories I've heard was Simon
using a USB WIFI adapter placed at the focal point of a metal
vegetable steamer, or collander or something of that sort. Apparently
it's cheap and surprisingly effective. The upshot is that you don't
have to know anything about connectors or do any soldering.
Dave
On 8/3/06, Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 03 August 2006 14:25, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> If you are looking to build Richard Weait and some of his friends
had > an
> interesting experience recently using a small satellite dish as a
> reflector for a wireless antenna.
Yep. I've hit >8km links without too much trouble with an offset
dish and
some time. Ok a lot of time... aiming's a bugger. :-)
If you're looking for antennas in the Kitchener/Waterloo area, I
really like
SuperPass... www.superpass.com. The place looks a little ghetto
but I've
never had a bad antenna from them and the prices aren't too bad,
either.
-A.
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