On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:37:01 -0500, James Kuhns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > John: > If I remember the layout of your house, you could probably achieve pretty > much the same effect by putting the wap on a high shelf in your living > room > (the ceiling peak in there is what - about 11 or 12 ft?). > > James Kuhns
I agree with your opinions about putting hardware up in the attic. I was planning to put my WAP on top of my entertainment center, which is at least 7'. There is also a small shelf for knick knacks at ~8' along the entire length of the walls in the same corner, so I have flexibility in choosing a high location for the WAP. Concerning the "Deep Dish Cylindrical Parabolic" antenna thread: I'd like to try using very cheap materials for this project. Mostly because I'm a cheap skate, but also because I was and still am fascinated by Gibson's idea of "high-tech low-life" (see: "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, or GURPS Shadowrun). Basically, I like to use cheap materials that others throw away and make it do something neat (hence the growing stacks of 486s and Pentiums in my office, much to my wife's consternation). I was considering using aluminum foil over a cardboard or cardstock form. The difficult part would be in getting the correct curve of the form, but I guess I could use a light rigid material like a drinking straw(s) at a bisection of the parabolic curve. The drinking straw(s) could also serve as an anchor to attach the dish to the WAP antenna. I guess my questions are: does the material for the reflector matter? Would aluminum foil serve as a good reflector? -- John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com
