Date: 05 Jun 2001 14:26:05 -0700 From: Benjamin Hyatt <benski@pacbell.net> To: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: wireless antenae hardware... Message-ID: <991776365.999.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <000501c0edf0$dc274930$4653cad1@78lb019> References: <000501c0edf0$dc274930$4653cad1@78lb019>
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On 05 Jun 2001 14:53:49 -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > I need to connect two locations together, approximately 1000meters or so > apart with a clear line of sight from rooftop to rooftop. On one location it > would be prefered to use an omni-directional device, with a point-to-point > device on the other end aimed directly at it. What I am trying to do is > connect our office to our local ISP's, (which happens to be directly accross > the highway from our building). I have made arrangements with the ISP, and > assuming the cost of hardware isn't too great, we're looking at using > wireless as an alternative to DSL. (Currently we cannot get DSL where we are > at). Most consumer 802.11 ap's I have dealt with don't have that kind of range. Outdoor, unobstructed you could possibly achieve 1500ft or so, but the weaker the single the slower the speed. <<Ben > If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, comments, concerns, or places where I > can purchase this stuff as inexpensively as possible... please let me know. > > > Nathan Vidican > Nathan@Vidican.com > http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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