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A trick to get around this is use their cheaper "home" (8 mac) hardware
and stick a router on it, then ROUTE instead of BRIDGE the packets. My
mountaintop is linked almost 8 miles using just standard (i.e. cheap)
cisco APs and WGBs - but I run 256 IPs up to the router on the mountain
using just one MAC (the router's MAC) - it then sends the packets to the
proper AP for the sector where the client is located. The cisco hardware
just sees two MACs talking to each other an awful lot (they're both routers!)
Thanks so much for explaining this! I think I finally understand after your clear explanation. So basically, I can get an AP-350 and a WGB-352, and make a link, and use that as a fully functional bridge for as many people as I like ... provided I put a router at each end. And we all know how expensive a router is ... ;-)
Good! I can save a ton of money and avoid the "bridge tax" now and still use Cisco 350s which was my hope to start with. In my pricing I noticed something important - I have to get the models ending in -R (as opposed to -C) because they have an RP-TNC connection. I need that to connect to the external antennas I'm going to use.
THe main competitor seems to be the Demarc Reliawave. It's a bit cheaper, and 200 mW ! Any comments on Cisco 350 vs. Reliawave as a bridge? Are they any good?
I looked also at HyperLink, but I got confused about turbocell and some reports in google that they won't bridge with non-turbocell radios. I don't wnat to use any kind of proprietary dead-end system, so that's scratched.
The Orinoco AP-2000 attracted my interested until I discovered it's max 50 mW. No thanks.
The smartBridges airBridge is intriguing sort of... but IIRC there are interop problems with other radios, and I don't know, I just feel kind of iffy about a product like that that's clearly aimed at ISPs, that makes me nervous.
simon
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