From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 22 15:59:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24A0106564A for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [220.233.188.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700618FC1B for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2MFxpmx020923; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:59:52 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:59:51 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Wojciech Puchar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20090322233924.O95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20090322032105.0CB501065781@hub.freebsd.org> <20090322153329.O95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Modulok Subject: Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:59:55 -0000 On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Best encrypted, or at least use point-to-point adhoc in bridge mode > > rather than point-to-AP unencrypted, which will surely get abused. > > quite available in Poland where people have unencrypted AP's at home. > good antenna and you get free (and anonymous ;) access to the net. My point exactly :) > > easily. With +15dBm antennae you should get (at least lower) 11g rates, > > and if you can afford 20+dBm dish grid antennae, so much the faster. > > grid antennas for 2.4Ghz are not expensive. give best available there are > about 24dB, to have LARGE margin for noise. It's a few years since I priced some of those, they're likely much cheaper now. Then something like AU$200 + coax + fittings per end. > > As others have said - avoid amplifiers, spend most on good antennae and > > amplifiers make sense ONLY when there are something on the line that damps > the signal (like few trees) and you can't avoid that. but still it's not > good, snow would fall on trees and then nothing will help. There's good discussion of that and fresnel zones etc in that WNDW book. BTW, I've since explored a bit and found what looks like a very useful companion (free, PDF) book "How to Accelerate Your Internet" that I've yet to read beyond the table of contents getting my attention, and a quick browse to scope the Traffic Shaping section. http://bwmo.net/ Very timely for me anyway; I have to tackle some Debian boxes in coming weeks, doing a crash course in iptables re both firewall and shaping. cheers, Ian