I spent about a month researching the news groups about wireless networking. I was specifically looking for a way to connect 2 networks together that were in separate buildings. I collected a lot of information that I sent to Edi Cramp via email. Edi and I live 2 houses apart with a house in between.
It turns out that several folks have done it. The key is "line-of-sight" - you must have it. Other factors are external directional (Yagi) antennas and short co-axial cable lengths between the WAP and the antenna. Most use POE (power over Ethernet). The most common equipment (i.e. cheap) used was 2 Linksys Wireless Access Point (WAP11). One was configured as the host and the other as the client. I will not bore the list with the messages I collected, but if you want them, let me know. Ron Spruell -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shannon Roddy Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:24 PM To: BRLUG Subject: Re: [brluglist] Re: [Sblug-list] any interested in a group purchaseof WLAN cards? Should not be that difficult. Buy one of the linksys access points, some coax, and an antenna for each location. There is also a way to do a 10 Mbit optical link. I will have to find the web page again.... Shannon On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 16:49, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Has anyone seen a system that can be used to create a wireless network > between two houses in a neighborhood? Say, about eight houses apart? > > Regards, Dustin > > At 11:58 AM 2/19/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > >Would probably have to buy a significant amount > >to get any good price breaks...but don't know for sure. > >Just my experience. > > > >I've been playing with the wireless for a while now > >but have used access points. But what you say is > >true, most software I've seen allows one of the > >cards to function as the accesspoint. It just has > >to be up in running. Not a problem in a smaller > >network. > > > >I'm using the NetGear stuff. It has linux drivers > >also but haven't had time to set it. I've found > >the NetGear stuff to be reliable and durable > >in a small LAN(100+ pc's). Even though it's > >Nortel's budget line product. > > > >Am implementing a copper Gigabit lab > >and will use netgear's new 24 port 10/100/1000 hub. > > > >Read good stuff about the Orinoco. Can't remember > >off hand the difference between the Silver and Gold > >other than cost. I would look at WEP standard it supports. > > > >my 2c's- > >-joe > > > > > >On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:40 am, you wrote: > > > I've been considering a purchase of 3 HP Lucent > > > ORiNOCO Silver Wireless PCMCIA cards for my home > > > network. I chose this card specifically because there > > > are Linux drivers for it and an external antenna can > > > be connected to it using a standard adapter cable > > > (like > > > http://www.nxgenstore.com/nxgen/itemdesc.asp?CartId=3890601UINHB791&ic=WRJC > > >MW19M) to increase the range. > > > > > > Just so you know, a wireless access point or base unit > > > is not required: > > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html, > > > which is the reason I want to buy 3 cards: 1 for my > > > firewall/gateway using a PCMCIA slot adapter, and 2 > > > for my 2 laptops. You can save a lot of money by not > > > having to purchase the base WAP unit. > > > > > > I found a pretty good deal at: > > > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/justdeals/luctecorsil1.html, > > > but I was thinking that a large group could get a > > > better deal by making a big purchase of the same WLAN > > > cards at one time. > > > > > > Does anyone have experience with making volume > > > purchases for a group like this? How well does it > > > work? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > John Hebert > > > > > > ps: By the way, I am one of the group coordinators at > > > the Baton Rouge Linux Users Group: www.brlug.net. > > > pps: anyone know of other Louisiana Linux User Groups > > > that I should contact? > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! 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