Here is a high performance antenna built from a recycled PrimeStar
dish antenna and a recycled juice can. It has about 22 dB of gain.
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html
You might want to get hold of Marlon Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.odessaoffice.com/wireless/ as he is heavily involved in wISP
development. He is also a major contributor on the wISP list as well as
being a wireless vendor.
wISP list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:27 PM 07/04/2001 -0400, Morgan Reed wrote
>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
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
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>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [Leaf-devel] Wireless routing question
>>
>>
>> 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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