Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Extending an external antenna

[Howie Frisch]

Lee: Unless you go for very low loss COAX, which is both expensive and thick - the same stuff they run up cellular towers - the loss in the cable will likely be more than anything that you can get out of an antenna. I think that you may be far better off looking for an outdoor access point, then running Ethernet (with POE) or separate ethernet and power (if allowed) through your conduit.  This would let you put the "radio" a lot closer to the antenna and would let you operate with a short COAX run of a few feet.  You'll pay more for the outdoor access point, but you'll get more than that back in cable and installation costs - plus the whole thing is likely to work better. Howie Frisch UTStarcom, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lee Weers wrote: We have a situation in which we need to cover our baseball and softball fields wirelessly.  There is currently no infrastructure there.  What we are looking to do is put a high gain antenna on the football stadiums scoreboard.  There is a conduit that we can run some coax through out to the scoreboard.  My question is this: 1.  Can you extend an antenna from an AP 250 ft?  (That's how long it is to the scoreboard) 2.  What kind of coax do we need to use to do a/b/g? We would like to mount the ap inside of the building and then just extend the external antenna to the scoreboard. Thank you,   Lee Weers Assistant Director for Network Services Central College IT Services (641) 628-7675 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.