I received an email question (quoted below) from a reader in Texas and was wondering if someone on this list has any suggestions for him?
Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've been trying to connect my barn to my home (400 ft) via a PTP wifi setup. I have directional antenna's on each side, but the result have been inconsistent at best. It works well for a while, then stops for a while. It appears that something that is particularly sensitive to temperature, since cold weather causes it to stop working. My best guess is that I just can't get them aimed correctly. As an aside, we're in the country, so there is no other WiFi in the area. At least nothing I can find on my adapters. Anyway, given the poor luck that I've had getting the wireless stable, I was wondering about using the wire that runs between the buildings. As it turns out, we're on separate power grids, so Powerline won't work. We do, however, have a cat3 phone line running between the buildings. Do you know of anything that can provide reasonable TCP over 400ft of cat3? I'm guessing that some form of intra-campus DSL setup would work. Of course I can get the customer side of the DSL hardware anywhere, but getting the phone company side would be tough. Perhaps I can simply use the CAT3 to connect the antenna terminals of the WiFi APs together? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
