Anyone interested in the Pringles antenna :-

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

Using this they claim they could get 11mbps over 10 miles!

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Matuscak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 March 2002 15:59
To: Scott Overfield
Cc: Firewalls ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Re: Wireless LAN security


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Scott Overfield wrote:

> My employer and I have been discussing the option of purchasing a Lucent
> Orinoco system to replace the current ADSL line between our two buildings,
> which are only about half a mile apart, with a clear line of
> site......However, I have very little experience with wireless, and I
> understand WEP is easily cracked...does anyone on the list have any
> experience with these devices, and how they can be secured? Any
suggestions
> or links that you can pass along I would appreciate very much......

BTW, if you want to do this on the cheap (perhaps as a test case), lots of 
people are doing this stuff with Linksys WAP-11 access points (about $150) 
and homebrew antennas from Pringles cans :-)

Search for wap-11 bridging.

Cheers,

Joe Matuscak
Rohrer Corporation
717 Seville Road
Wadsworth, Ohio 44281
(330)335-1541
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