[ale] OT: Wireless Questions

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Monday 01 September 2003 01:34, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Jonathon,
> What would work for just crossing the street in a neighborhood?
> Supposing you could get line of sight for ~300ft with no bags of water
> or trees in the way?  Would just a parabolic dish on each end of a
> normal PCI wifi cards with the external antenna option work?  My brother
> in law is in the IT sales business and is really hurting financially.
> He can't afford anything but a dialup, however, his neighbor wants to
> help him by offering access to the broadband the neighbor has.  I'll get
> him the Wifi cards as a gift if it is simple "can antenna" project. 

300 ft with a clear line of sight is very easy. Just about any antenna will 
work. You'll get 1-3Mbps with the stock antennas on any cheap access 
point/bridge. I prefer the Cisco equipment. You might be able to find a 
couple of Aironet bridges on eBay pretty cheap. With a clear shot like 
that, just about anything will work though. The Proxim/Orinoco gear is also 
very good.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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