Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:37:00 -0800 From: Bob Ney <bney@quiknet.com> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an and wi ad-hoc talking Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011110233357.027e4410@pop.quiknet.com> In-Reply-To: <200111110533.fAB5Xt769673@harmony.village.org> References: <Your message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:46:43 %2B0800." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111111245120.508-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111111245120.508-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
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You want to stay away from omni directional antennas. Besides the lower gain, they dirty up the band real bad. Better to use highly directional for point to point and sectorized for cell type distribution. We have rolled out several hundred 2.4 customers all over the Sacramento area this way and kept the band pretty clean. Our cells range from 1/2 mile to about 3 miles in radius. Our directional backbone links go as far as 20 miles, although we are experimenting with 5.8 for the backbones now. Our biggest problem is those pesky 2.4 wireless home phones. They are nasty. At 10:33 PM 11/10/2001 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111111245120.508-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> >Dinesh Nair writes: >: would the same scenario work if i had an AP and threw a wireless cloud >: over a say 2-3 mile radius ? > >Likely not. The antennas are very directional. You can get >non-directional antennas, but they are either huge, or top out at >about 8dBi. > >Warner > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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