Thanks for some excellent ideas guys. I will make sure to check the transmission retry count today as David Young suggested.
As Chris Beaumont had suggested we had considered trying to get rid of the (2) 20ft. coax runs. One method was to move the WAP11's into a sealed enclosure and then use D-Link DWL-P100's(good cheap PoE units) to power it. The other option was to use the other bridge units I mentioned in the original article. They were designed for outdoor use so would require minimal shielding. According to calculators I ran though, just eliminating the cables wouldn't gain me that much signal. Charles Chia Seng Wu suggested Karlnet or Star-OS, and we looked into Karlnet in the beginning and found it cost prohibitive. We are a very small school district and the budget was tight. The project was just to get some better internet speed to a school in a small town where the option is either dial-up or T1, and the T1 costs $2,300/month. Jason Straight commented on height, so I will clarify that. On one end the WAP sits in attic area of a home sized building, and the cable runs up a mast right next to the building. Overall height on that end is 35 foot. On the other end the WAP sits in the attic area of a 24 foot building and then the cable runs through the roof and up a tripod that is mounted at the peak of the building. Overall height on this end is 40 foot. At the beginning of the project we had a local GIS person gather some topographical maps and we discerned that there is a small "valley" between the sites(luckily) and that there is a steady 80 foot drop from site 1 to site 2. We came up with about the same Fresnel of 43ish feet, but according to our numbers the only problem is at site one where we only have 35 foot. Again, thank you for the excellent suggestions. Brian Taylor Technology Coordinator Waconda USD #272 - Cawker City, KS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Straight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] WAP11 Bridge too slow > On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:16 pm, Chris Beaumont wrote: > > Brian, > > > > Its a long shot, but I was thinking that perhaps if you could put the > > APs up higher, right next to the antennas, in a waterproof case..and > > eliminate the 20 feet of coax, that might help. You could use power > > over ethernet.. the Wap 11s I think support that..if not, its not too > > hard to add.. Or just run an extension cord up to each of your APs. > > > > Another option if that doesnt work might be to get a second pair of > > antennas and use them as diversity antennas, maybe using the opposite > > polarity.. By the way, you are using horiz. polarity, aren't you? Its > > better in the situation you are in, Ive heard.. > > > > Good luck!!! > > > > -Chris > > Well if he's only got 20' of antenna height that would be the problem anyway. > At 10 mi the fresnel zone will be 43 feet. > > -- > Jason Straight > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > icq: 1796276 > pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc > > -- > 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
