[Cialug] waps

[David Champion]

n.d wrote:
> is there a way to "link" wireless access points together to form a web 
> of waps without using cat5? in other words doing it wirelessly???
> 
> kinda interested in this as i want to link up with a few other people in 
> my neighborhood. my wap gets about 1500meters  range @54mbps. beyond 
> that i get around 11-30mbps.
> 
> any ideas?

Some WAP's can behave as a "wireless bridge". This is probably what you 
want.

There's also "wireless grid networks" which is probably not what you want.

Do the google thing on those topics, should get you some info.

-dc