Thanks for all the information.  I will start looking for equipment and give it 
a try.  

Tim

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Re: Need Help... where can I buy a DSL-Internet repeater...? 
Posted by: "Kevin Custer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]   repeaterbuilder 
Fri Jan 5, 2007 6:15 am (PST) 
kb2mfs wrote:
> No I haven't tried it yet. I did some modeling and with 150mw, 20dbi 
> antennas and the antenna at the friends house mounted up 21 feet (he 
> doesn't have a tower and isn't a Ham) and the antenna mounted at 
> least 60 feet up my tower it showed a good path. This was 7.22 Km 
> and despite the non line of sight. I was hoping for 2.4 Ghz 
> equipment since it is readily available running 200mw and 24 dbi 
> antennas. I had also planned to mount the units at the antenna 
> point. I was just second guessing the software models results. I am 
> pretty cheap so didn't want to spend the money on equipment if I 
> wasn't reasonably sure it would work.
> 

And is the reason why I chose to mention the WET11. They can be bought 
for $40 each or less on eBay.
> I have never used anything near 2.4 Ghz but I would think it would be 
> rather difficult to line up the antennas. Other than a rough guess 
> what is the best way to do this? It looks like every milliwatt may 
> matter in this installation. 
> 

It's not really all that bad. Don't let the pointing issue scare you 
with 24 dB grids.
Now if we needed to use 6 foot dishes, then yes pointing can be interesting.

Kevin

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