From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 30 17:56:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00753 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from dream.future.net (root@future.net [204.130.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00738 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:56:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomthai@future.net) Received: from dream.future.net (tomthai@future.net [204.130.134.1]) by dream.future.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA18868; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:52:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:52:55 -0600 (CST) From: "Tom T. Thai" To: Bernie Doehner cc: Lukas Wunner , andrew@pubnix.net, kbrown@primelink.com, dnelson@slip.net, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Services In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk what do you guys use to measure line of sight so that it's as precise as possible? On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bernie Doehner wrote: > > Here in Germany (or rather, in all ETSI countries), the EIRP regulations > > are very strict, so even with the 18 dBi antennas, you cannot go > > further than about 2.5 km. According to a guy from BreezeCom, in China > > there are no regulations whatsoever wrt transmission power, so these guys > > are more or less roasting the birds on their antennas. IIRC, the guy spoke > > of 60W. The US version has 1W if I am not mistaken. > > Hmmm. I wonder if the Chinese version is modifiable for the 2.3 GHz. ham > band? (Anyone going to China anytime soon and willing to bring me back > one???) :) > > Bernie > > .............. .................................... Thomas T. Thai Infomedia Interactive Communications tom@iic.net TEL 612.376.9090 * FAX 612.376.9087