dwl900AP+'s work well as AP's, but I've had real trouble with them as clients. the best "po' mans wifi" I've seen across any distance consisted of DWL900AP+ as AP and wap11 2.2 or 2.6 as clientAP's connecting clients or redistributing through additional front side AP's. Low latency even on slightly marginal links. good reassociation after fade/head-end reboot functionality (really important to start off wisp). in all honesty the wap11 1.1's with 1_4j_1 firmware connected to DWL900AP+ headend works amazing. I have required really low "customer intervention" since I standardized my environment to the above components only. I know it sounds strange, but my orinoco silver card caused more trouble to my linksys environment than you would believe. I would monitor my network all day from work and no trouble. it was only when I would get home at night that things would flake out and get weird. I doubt this is a flaw with orinoco or linksys really, more of an interoperation thing that noone really bothers to repair. either way: once I got rid of that card all things converged and things are working great. at least until the leaves come back on the trees. :)
anbody know a source for cheap wap11 ver1.1's? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Skowvron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bamg7777" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] connecting 2 linksys WAP11 - which antenna > A lot of people seem to recommend grids and yagis, but I really like the > performance that I've been getting with panel antennas. > > http://www.winningimages.com/cat-net/wireless.html#panel > > If the path is line-of-sight with no obstructions, you should be able to > have a solid link even with the small 5" panel. The 13 would give you a > lot more fade margin, but it's probably not necessary. > > Do you already have the WAP's? I have to agree with everyone else > because I've got experience with them. Try to avoid them. Currently, the > D-Link 900AP+ seems to have very stable firmware and I would recommend > them if you want to build something that doesn't flake out on you. > > Michael > > > > bamg7777 wrote: > > I am attempting to connect 2 houses that are about 2000 feet apart. > > Maybe 2500. I am going to put a WAP11 at each site. It is the 802.11b > > version. > > Which antenna would you suggest? > > > > > > > -- > 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
