Call me and we can talk about this. I'm pacific time. 509.988.0260
Having said that. What's your budget? Don't use WDS. Radios do NOT like being repeaters. They want to come in wireless out via wire or vice versa. If you need to move further down the road, use two radios for it. You can put backhaul and distribution radios in those rb5xx boards. Do NOT use high gain omni antennas, they too often overshoot the customers. There is no real world benefit to them. Do NOT use amps. They will raise the noise levels far too much. I'd expect open air coverage in the few hundred foot range. Coverage into a camper in the couple of hundred feet range. Coverage through several campers in the not much range..... It looks like the campers are often lined up in rows. I'd work to set sector antennas that point into the rows so that people will usually not ever have more than one or two other campers between them and the antenna. Or, if it's an option, put your antennas up high and point down into the camp ground. I'd set up some temp systems for events around here. Using 17ish dB radios with 24dB grids (yeah I know it's way over legal power, we're in the middle of nowhere, pointing down into a box canyon and it's temporary) I've gotten nearly a mile with good speeds to a laptop. Not sure how far into the camper city the coverage goes but I've not gotten many complaints.... Here's were we're at with this: http://photos.stumpjumpers.org/gallery/4693800_msFfU#288963586_W7xVZ laters, marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 11:14 PM Subject: [WISPA] Gear > I've been trying to setting a small camp ground with a wireless hotspot. > It's proving difficult and i'm getting tired of messing with it. Right > now > we have 3 units from microtik, they are the routerboard 500's and i'm not > sure what cards are on them. Front one end of the park to the other it's > about 1100FT according to google maps. There is a building thats not > quiet > in the middle, probably about 300 to 400 ft from the right side of the > park. > This is where the internet comes in and the main AP is. THen on the other > ends we have single units and they are setup in WDS mode. All the units > have > omni antennas, think they are 14 db. Like i said i'm tired of messin with > it. Whats the ideal gear to buy for this type of setup and how many > units. > I'm basically trying to allow people who are staying at this park to get > on > the net using there laptops, phones, etc. > > One thing i like about the microtik units is the hotspot web interface, > it's > nice that the wireless can be open and they have to use and user/pass to > login. Anybody got any recommendations? > > Here's the parks layout http://unix-scripts.com/images/sbwl.jpg > > ~Shaun > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
