[Cialug] wireless hop

[Dave Hala Jr]

My line of site is fairly clear. I've a got a pair of wrtg's with
sveasoft firmware loaded on the them that I used in town almost 8-10
years ago. Using the AP with the external antenna mounted on the outside
of my house, you could connect to it from inside a house about anywhere
in approximately a 1 block radius using a high power 802.11b card.  Of
course, the power ratings and antenna gain made it illegal. I'd also
question whenever or not it was safe.

I'd use the wrtg's and turn the power down, but I need more throughput.
The 5ghz bridge will work ok, because the LOS is clear -and its priced
reasonable. However, I need to check some reviews, its not reasonably
priced if its junk.  Once I set it up, I'm gonna forget about it, I dont
have time to tinker or fight it. I'm money ahead to spend more up front.
The trick is to figure out how much to spend to get what I want....

:) Dave


On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 14:01 -0600, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:
> Yeah, the 5Ghz is pretty sensitive to trees and such... We use them for site to site links in Marshalltown, so not much for trees (at least on our links). Longest link is ~2-3mi. They've been rock solid so far.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 1:58:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] wireless hop
> 
> At 01:48 PM 2/3/2012, you wrote:
> >What about Ubiquiti gear? We can get a ~100mbit half duplex or 
> >~50mbit full duplex for about $200 or so with the Nanostations..
> 
> Tried that a few years ago out in the country, .. they seemed real 
> sensitive to vegetation & trees; could not get a link over a similar 
> range with a 20db omni antenna.
> 
> Let us know where you end up for your solution? *Especially* if you 
> find some directional antennas.
> 
>          Lee 
> 
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