-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > I would probably favor the directional antennas, as others have > suggested. SimpleWifi had a booth at DefCon with some interesting > options - http://www.simplewifi.com, and relatively reasonably priced. > > If I were in your shoes, I would likely start with 3 access points - one > at each location, and bridge them to each other. But it sounds like you > want a single access point that has the range to cover the other > buildings. In this case, I don't think you have much choice but to > boost the transmit power, and deal with more sensitive/directional
I am not sure why this is such a popular option, but it causes more problems than it solves. Unless you *know* your gear is clean at higher power output (the linksys routers are not, in case you are curious) and unless you have two high power devices, don't change this setting. Of course if your goal is to mess with someone else's wifi, a high power, distorted signal hammering away at a particular AP is not a bad way to DoS someone... not that I would know anything about that. I know a guy named Bob... > antennas for reception. You can pick up wifi range extenders at > Staples/FutureShop, etc. I've never worked with them so am not sure how > well they work. I suspect they only cover the transmit side of things > though. > I have one of these extender devices. The Linksys extender I have is limited to about 5 Mbit thoughput (500 K/sec). It works but again, I have more specific needs (basically 2 MiB/sec or I am not happy). I am willing to part with that Linksys extender for the low low cost of a beer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqu0W4ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNl2gCeNuhk9GL9Xz96Crl+of06AGHv ESUAmwW2CHyfTRElR6vg3DnUe+I6gigr =f1jM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
