Thanks for your input Steve,
We would like to move into a more commercial type package and get away from the SoHo devices. And the fact that we don't really know Linux/Unix very well I would certainly be a little gunshy to possibly brick a device. Thanks Again, Devin On 3/12/07, steven murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
upgrade your WAPs to DD-WRT and run the radios at 84 mW. possibly upgrade to buffalo whr-hp-G54 units if you like the broadcom based units. On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Devin Mudd wrote: Good Morning, I have followed and been a member of your site for over two years now since I used information gathered here in order to help me design and build my new WiFi network in our rural town of Bedford, Kentucky. We have now grown to 7 farms connected to our small WiFi deployment and now once again I need your help. We have been granted a huge speed increase by our ISP Insight Communications as they have come to view our project and because they cannot provide internet and cable television in the lower valley to where we beam our internet access they have increased our speed and lowered our bill to help us provide support to the community. This is all great but the issue is that we have only single WAp54g's connected to 15 and 24DB Parabolic Grid antennas for our point to point backhaul (please see http://www.detroitnetworks.com/farm-net ). We now have 10Megabits/1Megabit of internet bandwidth and I want to capture as much of that as possible down at the far end. I purchased a pair of high output radios 500mw 802.11B /200mw 802.11G (AP530) from our vendor ValuePoint as I have seen your organization use them. We installed them on Saturday and tested for about 5-6 hours trying to aim the antenna's but in 802.11G mode we had terrible performance and our maximum bandwidth was only 400-500K in both directions with huge spikes in ping times between the radios with laptops at both ends. When we set both radios to 802.11B we were able to eeek out about 2.4Megabits/1Megabit and 1ms ping times which is good but not what we were expecting. With our very low power Linksys WAP54G's we were able to get that much bandwidth albeit not as reliable but much less expensive than those Super AP530s. We thought right away that the high power G radios would give us all 10Megabits to then redistribute to all the neighbors. Our Antenna's are mounted on the side of a chimney and the side of a barn pointed down to the valley and the other back up to the barn. Could someone look at our website and let us know your thoughts on a possible solution? I have tried to put up as much helpful information as possible. Thank You, Devin Mudd _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
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