I've found that 802.3af POE seems to work fine up to 300' Years ago I did an install of a Cisco Access Point with POE to almost 320' 9beyond the Ethernet spec.), it worked very well.
Frank Keeney Blog: http://www.unwiredadventures.com Work: http://www.wlanparts.com Photos: http://snurl.com/unwirephotos > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Close > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 7:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: establishing a WiFi link > > > 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). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
