These are not 802.11 devices, they are essentially cable modems. I used to work for a company that used these (Warpdrive Networks) that hasn't existed for 3-4 years now. The antenna MIGHT be usable but they are 75ohm fed rather than 50ohm. The headend unit is a FreeBSD box with some very special hardware that spits out a 6mhz carrier the plugs into a transmitter (TV, MMDS etc.) It uses QAM-64 on the down stream and some other standard that I forget on the upstream (I think it's either QAM-16 or QPSK). About the only thing that the set up is good for is watching MMDS TV which is transmitted out of the same mountain that your antenna is pointed at.
For 802.11 the only usable part is the pole ;) I wouldn't be surprised if you see the headend units on the used market real soon. These are passive backplane Intel based FreeBSD boxes that have a an ethernet card and up to 3 carrier generators per TV channel. The 3 separate signals go into another card that makes one baseband video signal with the 3 signals staggard. On the receive end it's a similar setup but I believe it's just a receiver board that plugs into a sector antenna with several of these per box. Hope this helps. Dan. On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:40:37PM -0500, Ryan Marsh wrote: > So I've got three Hybrid WBR's along with a California Amplifier planar > array each. They're leftover from Sprint's now dead MMDS service. Would > it be possible for a friend and I to set up a wireless link between two > points using said equipment or do I need the equipment that Sprint used > at their AP? > > Thanks, > -ryan > -- > Humans are the unfortunate result of a local maximum in the > fitness landscape. > > www.ryanmarsh.com > > -- > 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
