From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 31 07:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA15817 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 07:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from errigle.gpl.net (mail@errigle.gpl.net [194.46.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA15812 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 07:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradley@gpl.net) Received: from bradley by errigle.gpl.net with smtp (Exim 1.595 #1) id 0xRJ9e-0000jH-00 (Debian); Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:38:34 +0000 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:38:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Dermot Bradley To: Lukas Wunner cc: andrew@pubnix.net, kbrown@primelink.com, tomthai@future.net, dnelson@slip.net, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, bad@uhf.wireless.net, 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 On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Lukas Wunner 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. ETSI 300 328 specifies 100mW max. I've used both Cylink (128k data rate) at 5 miles (capable of 7 miles) and Wavelan-derived boxes (2Mb data rate) at 1.5 miles (capable of 6km). I thought that the Breezecom boxes could do approx. 6-7 miles. Dermot -- Dermot Bradley Belfast, Northern Ireland bradley@oldcolo.com, bradley@debian.org