Did I read his (Jeffrey's post wrong), he said, he needs to go 1/4 mile, right? there is 5280 feet in a mile, so /4 = 1320'
then why are people mentioning 200 & 300'. any way, from the site ccrane that another member sent in here is a parabolic antenna that will suit your needs for $89 x 2, right http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/wifi-antennas/point-to-point-wifi-antenna.aspx you might need to laser sight to bet an accurante reading, and obviously try it at night, Doh, didn't some one try this a year or two ago from this group or was it another group, brain fart here Don On 7/30/07, Frank Keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
