[ale] Opinions solicited on current status of ddwrt antenna bridging.

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 09/01/2015 10:07 AM, David Millians wrote:
> 
> On 9/1/2015 9:44 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> On 09/01/2015 09:34 AM, David Millians wrote:
>>>
>>> I need to setup a point-to-point antenna bridge. It's been several years
>>> since I did this with ddwrt on a wrt54gs and point-to-point antennae.
>>>
>>> A quick google showed old results- so if anybody has done this within
>>> the past year, and can suggest new equipment that's cool and effective,
>>> please do so.
>>
>> Ubiquiti. Cheap for what they do. Amazing compared to any
>> home-router-wifi.
> 
> I'll clarify.
> 
> We have a full aruba infrastructure- which I like, and hope HP doesn't
> foul up. Their switches are nice, too.
> We have fiber out to a field house, and wifi out there. Unfortunately,
> they have special need of a faster connection out in the press box.
> (Long term, we hope to use that fiber to wire up the press box, but
> there's not a clear cut educational goal there to make funding it easy,
> so it'd have to come out of local budget or booster club.)
> 
> In the past, I've setup one-off connections using small routers and
> directional antennas:
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridged
> It looks cool, makes us look techie, is cheaper than other bridging
> stuff, and also makes it easier to justify adding nodes to the network
> once people get a connection. You get them hooked, as it were.
> 
> But my temp rig for this was at the other job, and they've sadly
> surplussed all the gear. So I need to buy some new. Rather than buy some
> wrt54gs again, I was wondering if anybody had good recs on other routers
> and/or yagi antennas or sources.
> 
> 

Ubiquiti still fits ... 30 ft or 30 miles.
https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/nanobridgem/
They start at about $80.