I have a broadband Cable connection and my apartment looks out on three Battery Park City "pocket parks". I'm interested in setting up a little neighborhood wireless network that covers these three parks, but I'm stuck because I don't know which wireless product will meet the needs of the "typical community provider" the list hopes to support. I think whatever would help me would be a good recommendation for other newbies. Can I get some feedback?
My node entry: http://maps.nycwireless.net/node?id=639.
The area(s) I'm trying to cover:
- Rector Place Park East (80 feet straight down, 130 feet diagonally).
- Rector Place Park West (80 feet down, 300 feet west, making it 311 feet diagonally)
- Hudson Park Greenway Pocket Park (80 feet down, 200 feet southeast, 216 feet diagonally)
My observed needs for a network (in descending order):
- can produce a reliably strong signal out of doors
- can accomodate multiple external directional antennas (yagis, patches, pringles cans)
- can have its signal boosted to the maximum 1 watt (how do you do that?)
- doesn't need to be constantly reset (a problem I've read about)
- ability to work seamlessly with overlapping networks (bridging? I'm not sure how this works)
- supports VPN (or some type of relatively secure connection to my internal lan)
- Works with Windows XP
Are there any Wireless Access Point/Gateway that can provide this solution?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Rob
P.S. I also have a straight view down West End Avenue to Battery Park, though it's about half a mile. Still, if there's some type of retail antenna (or pringles can concoction) that can hit that distance, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Thanks again.
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