On 17 Dec 2000 Randy Goldenberg wrote:
> On Thursday December 14, 2000, Or Botton wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine and I are thinking about trying to setup a LAN between
> > our computers. He lives afew houses away from me (about 2, 3 minute
> > walk), so obviously putting a cable isnt a solution. The internet
> > bandwidth at our ISP's can be very low at rush hours, and direct
> > modem to modem connection have become quite a futile idea, thanks to
> > our phone company who have increased the prices sky-high. (they
> > "fixed" it by giving discount to ISP dial-up numbers. G, thanks.)
> > [...]
>
> The standard for wireless LANs is IEEE 802.11 . A good
> jumping off point is:
>
> http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~elec456/wlan/index.htm
You could try that, but I think you'd be lucky to get _any_ existing
802.11 indoor solution to work under such conditions. (2-3 min walk =
~600 feet through umpteen walls?) You may need to rig antennae outside
your respective houses for that to work.
An example of the latter: Orinoco's AP-500 access point + 7dBi
omni-directional base station antenna (2 sets of course, and you'd have to
stick the antenna out a window or something). Pretty darn expensive --
prob about $1-2K per set. There may be slightly cheaper solutions, so
shop around.
NOTE: I haven't used Orinoco products, but I did use the older WaveLAN
gadgets for building-building connectivity (must've been 5 years back,
when NCR still owned the brand & products). Had two buildings across the
street from each other (~300 feet), so I stuck an antenna + Ethernet
bridge on facing windows at each side.
Worked like a charm, and I laid the blame for my boss's accelerating hair
loss on his increasing workload. (Evil SOB that I was, his office windows
in _both_ buildings got the antennae. 8-)
- Adrian
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