C.Crane has a neat little antenna too at: http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/wifi-antennas/point-to-point-wifi-antenna.aspx
The computer would be extra, Dave is right. Just rig an Access Point for the end! Richard N6GPP On 7/30/07, Dave Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mike Burgess wrote: > > >Attach your AP directly to the DISH with a coupler, and power over > >ethernet. > > Not sure how to get ethernet 200feet. > > As others have noted, Ethernet can easily handle 200 feet. But PoE might > be a different story. If your antenna-end equipment doesn't provide for > PoE but only needs low voltage, you can get a pair of PoE adapters fairly > cheap. Put one on one end to put output of the power brick onto the wire > and one on the other end to take it back off. But there will be current > loss over that distance so you may have to start with a higher voltage. > Measure to be sure. > > I don't see why Jeffrey needs a computer at the antenna end. An AP should > be quite enough (though some APs are essentially small computers). > -- > Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA "A difference has to make a > [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 714 434 7359 difference in order to be a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] difference." --Wendell Johnson > > > > > -- Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." --Charles Mingus "If your protocol is successful, it will eventually be used for purposes for which it was never intended, and its users will criticize you for being shortsighted." --Charlie Kaufman "Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." - "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." --- Anon (of course) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
