You don't want to lay it flat against the building. The building will become part of the antenna and it is almost certainly not a good WiFi antenna. The good news is that just 5 or 6 inches should be enough distance from the building. Just make sure you're not trying to go through fire-escapes, they gave me trouble connecting to a neighbor of mine.
Maybe some wood can be painted the same brick color, if you build a mount? If you just don't want the antennas to be seen from the ground maybe you fasten a tripod to the top of your air-conditioners? Or paint them the color of your AC and suspend them in air using transparent fishing line? PS Someone else was upset about a short antenna wire with his commercial antenna yesterday.. This is a good thing, WiFi cards are extremely low power. You are much better off building an outdoor enclosure for your AP than trying to get a good signal through 5-10 ft of LMR-400, with 3dB losses on each connection. -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, jon baer wrote: ]greetings, ] ]i have a small personal project @ home, in which ive made 2 yagi cantennas ]enclosed into pvc and painted to match the buildings brick, my cousin lives ]on the 3rd floor + gets one, and im on the 5th floor with the AP + the other ]yagi hangs off an LMR cable to the outside (there is quite a distance ]between our apts) ... ] ]---------------- ]| AP \ | ]| | ]| C \ | ]---------------- ] ]we tested it and its perfect connectivity @ 5.5Mbps, etc. my question now ]is about mounting it against the brick wall securely, safely, and making it ]not too obvious ... anyone have suggestions? i dont need it mast mounted ]since it can rather lay flat again the building ... im thinking also to lay ]it flat on the window sill but i dont think they make clamps that can tilt ]it ... ] ]- jon ] ]pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc ]fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
