Yes, I was planning to use my laptop and PDA while sitting on the deck next to the pool, so the location is fixed. Currently my WAP is sitting in my office, but that room is on one corner of my house. I plan to move the WAP soon to my living room above my entertainment center, which would make it central to my house. I think it would then be almost line of site through glass windows and one wooden door. The signal strength should not be a problem then but having the parabolics on the WAP should make my wireless network available through the rest of the backyard, hopefully.
John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Sheldon To: [email protected] Sent: 6/20/03 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Deep Dish Cylindrical Parabolic Template I get 802.11b from a neighbor through two brick walls. He has a mid-range unamplified HyperGain antenna on his LinkSys and I have a DirecTV dish in my apartment hooked to a table. On the dish's element I have a SoHo antenna mounted, but the dish itself reflects my neighbor's signal even futher & concentrated. So I can use my Newton or laptops at extended pockets. I would think for outdoors that you wouldn't necessarily need all that much, but I would try to go the route that would require less effort for use, such as a receiving antenna with unpowered re-direct. Do you plan to lounge against the machine in a specific area, say the patio? -Jeff _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
