Wow, thanks for all the info. So what exactly could/should I do with all this hardware? Take it to the shooting range?
-ryan On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:16, Dan Fitzpatrick wrote: > 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 -- 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
