I just went up to the roof and I have a great shot of San Bruno mountain and probably a mile north. I cant see mount davidson. Of course I see San francisco airport and san mateo farther south than the Bridge.
(For other interested.) -----Original Message----- From: Jim Meehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:50 PM To: Enrique LaRoche Subject: Re: [BAWUG] second call: SF wireless broadband I think the airport might be a little too far south. I think Alameda is about as far south as I can see along the east bay shoreline. However, as soon as someone volunteers equipment to get the public access site up at my house, or I get it set up myself, you are more than welcome to try getting a link up to it from your location. -j On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:26:07PM -0700, Enrique LaRoche wrote: > Hi, > Can you see the Oakland Airport from your Antenna location? > > I Just ordered an orinoco gold card. For antenna connection. > I have several Wap11's here and could set up an experimental setup to test > our connectivity. > > We could experiment with point to multipoint? > > I have an 8db omni on the roof and an 15 db Yagi and an 8 db patch to play > with. > > I guess we are a decent 13 miles line of site. > > I dont have any amplifiers but i am looking at some 250 miliwatt units. > > Also I have several Compaq WL100 cards and I will have 2 extra units if > anyone is interested. > > These are 100 mw prism cards. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Meehan > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] second call: SF wireless broadband > > > I posted about this several weeks ago, and was fairly surprised at the lack > of responses I received. To put it simply, I have 3.5 Mbps of mostly unused > bandwidth at my house -- possibly more if the uplink is upgraded to 802.11a > or > 802.11g. I'd like use my good location to distribute that bandwidth to > anyone > who wants it -- especially those that would redistribute it to local users. > > If you're in these areas of SF, you're probably a good candidate for line- > of-sight to my location: Castro, Upper Market, Lower Haight, Mission, South > of Market, Pacific Heights, Downtown, China Basin, west side of Potrero > Hill. > Berkeley, Oakland and the hills above each are potentially also > possibilities. > > I've written some information about how the 3.5 Mbps wireless link to my > house > came to be. It's at http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/sfwbb/. > > I'd love to see this take off and turn into a fairly significant > distribution > network for high speed Internet access. My resources are here for the > offering! > > -j > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
