Also, if you are on the edge of the range, add an external antenna! There
are several good pages about building your own el Cheapo ant.
http://www.wlan2.dabsol.co.uk/antenna-page.html
this page has quite a few links to DIY antenna, as well as commercial units.
There is a link to a picture of a guy using an LRP box as the router (no
access point in between, which is the more normal route) with an external
antenna in Australia, but he has not written me back regarding if he is
using LRP as an AP or in Ad Hoc mode.
To go off on this subject for a sec, the LRP box sees the 802.11b card as
just another eth*, the question is how does another unit hook into the
system. Using an access point, when you tell your client to connect to the
access point and connect that way, the AP takes care of either being a
bridge or a router. However, the Linux AP software is not really robust (at
least what I have played with) and there is considerable discussion on other
Linux groups about building towards that in the future; the other choices
are peer to peer or ad hoc. I am guessing that the Aussie is using Ad Hoc
mode. I am betting that no one is using WEP or any other kind of security.
Sorry for this rambling bit, but as you work on yours, if you come up with
good answers, feed them back to the list.
Morgan
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> Subject: [Leaf-devel] Wireless routing question
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> Greetings,
>
> I remember some folks working on a wireless router solution. I
> believe I saw an announcement of a working image.
>
> I want to setup a wireless link to my neighbors house. He's on
> the edge of range (600-700 feet ~est, I need to measure it). I
> was looking at access point to access point devices when I
> remembered someone saying that they had a working wireless setup.
> I do not remember seeing what they were using it for or how they
> were using it.
>
> Barring range considerations (I can research that) would it be
> posible to use that image with a PC Card adapter and a wireless
> pc card in a router to router setup?
>
> <pc>---<router>~~~~air~~~~<router>---<pc>
>
> Thanks,
> -sp
>
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