Michael Robinson wrote: > Some more info: > > 1: It is roughly 71 feet from the sidewalk pad in front of the > pump house to the cantenna hanging on the side of the next > building. > > 2: It is about 10' from the edge of the pad to where the linksys > router is at. Figure 15' to be safe. > > 3: The straight line from AP to cantenna is probably around 72.5 to > 73'. > > 4: It appears that the RealTek card on the Linux side likes to > disassociate itself from the AP. > > 5: The well is in a seperate room in the pump house and the building > is wood, so the wireless signal should have no problem traveling > through the walls. > > 6: Because of the well, it isn't practical to bury an underground > Ethernet line between the pump house and the next building. It > isn't practical to run an aerial line either. > > Before I think, oh I'll just go to Ebay and get a new wireless card > such as an Orinoco gold card, I want to know if I'm close enough to > get a good connection. I'm also concerned that my Linksys router > in the pump house is flaky because I'm having trouble accessing the > web page on it. > > Humidity is going to be problematic because the signal has to travel > through the open air between these buildings. It might even be a > problem inside the buildings themselves. > > Not to mention the fact that wooden walls -- particularly wooden walls with condensation -- aren't all that transparent to radio in the GHz region.
Could you put an antenna on the outside of the pump house? Maybe even a Cantenna? I've got about a 50 foot run between a Cantenna on the outside of a metal building and a router in my house; it's quite reliable except during heavy rains when I sometimes have to go around resetting things to get the network up and running again. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
