As far as distance goes, if they are trying to setup an AP where the clients are 4 miles away, over water, I believe them when they said it didn't work. Timing definitly comes into play at those distances and unless the AP is on a tower you'd have lots of reflections.
If there is a tower on the ridge you describe they might be able to set up a wireless bridge. Having the two end points as high as possible above the water would keep the frensel zone from reflecting too much. The bridges should easily do 4 miles since they can compensate for the timing issues. -Tom > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:52:45 -0700 > From: Norm Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [BAWUG] 2-4 miles over water? > > Hi there, > > I'm new to wireless and new to this list, so please > forgive if this has been > covered before... > > I live on the edge of a saltwater bay and suffer > through a 24k dialup. I > know there is 802.11 not far away, over a ridge on > the other side of the > bay... and I could probably talk the local ISP/WISP > into putting a POP in > across the bay if I can find enough customers on my > side to sign up for > service... so I'd like to know if anyone has any > experience (good or bad) > with 802.11x links of any length over saltwater... > my local ISP/WISP has > told me they tested it and couldn't get it to work > due to reflections off > the water and timing issues... but that was a while > ago, and I don't think > they tried parabolics or anything extreme... can > anyone give some insight? > > Thanks, > -Norm. > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
