At that distance, if the router in the building is close to the side those outlying buildings are on, I'd just buy a cheap nanostation2 for each building to connect back to the indoor router. I have some outdoor cat5 I can give you. Total cost to get wireless to the outbuildings $200. I think the NS2 have a "repeater mode" which would do for your basic needs.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Guderian <rob.guder...@gmail.com> Sender: discuss-bounces@lists.skullspace.caDate: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:22:30 To: <discuss@lists.skullspace.ca> Reply-To: discuss@lists.skullspace.ca Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Cantenna, or signal booster Yeah, I'm talking outdoors, but not extreme distance. I could throw money at this project, but origin of the project was to build a cantenna - I just needed an application for it to motivate myself. I'm also choosing to to this on the cheap as part of the challenge. Reliability/throughput is ... not a huge deal - I don't exactly have clients waiting on me. Somewhat better breakdown of the problem domain: Farmyard. Main house, 2 outlying buildings that are about 100-150m out from the house. Both have south-facing windows I can use to warm an area to consumer-grade hardware levels using both a greenhouse effect, or with some kind of heater if required. So, stage 1 is get wireless to the outlying buildings. Stage 2 is to install sensors indoors, and outdoors. I'll probably go with Raspberry pis - and have them report back with images, humidity, temperature, etcetcetc. But that's longer term, and will grow organically. >Note the 2 antennas are on the same "radio" / in the same collision domain so >you can't point them to different places or use them as separate "networks". That's true. I'm planning on keeping them on the same network, and it will cause a hidden node problem at the hub router in the house, but, I'm not going to be pushing massive throughput, and I think it'll be minor. Adam: Which kind of Cantenna dis you build? I guess it was successful, what kind of range are you getting? _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
