[36849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Custom Wireless Solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Dale)
Sun Apr 22 21:55:35 2001
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:55:44 +1000
To: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz@idirect.com>
From: Lincoln Dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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last time i looked, cisco didn't sell 802.11 wireless cards for $4K each . . .
2 x 802.11 cards + antenna should be able to do it. take good care in
getting an appropriate antenna with suitable gain.
the cisco website has a spreadsheet that allows you to calculate the
required gain.
if you don't want 2 x PC's with 802.11 cards in it, then 2 x wireless
access-points or 2 x wireless bridges would work.
still nowhere near $8K . . .
cheers,
lincoln.
NB. line-of-sight is required.
At 09:39 PM 22/04/2001 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
>I saw this question posed on on the forums at AnandTech.com and would love
>to see if it is plausible.
>
>"Ok, here is the deal. I have a freind that lives about 5.7 miles away
>from me and almost has a line of sight. He would probably have to put an
>antenae on his house to get a line of sight to mine. At my house, I have
>no options for high speed internet access, at all, but at his house, he
>can get cable. I got to thinking, and I came up with an idea. What if I
>could get ahold of some wireless networking equipment that I could use to
>network to his house, then he could get cable, we could split the monthly
>bill, and I would have cable access at my house.
>
>Here is my question: What equipment could I use to do this? I found some
>stuff on cisco's site, but it costs about $8000. The speed does not have
>to be supper fast, but I would like to have something at least the speed
>of ISDN.
>
>I want to know what other people have to say abhout this, so shoot. "
>
>Is this plausible. Is there any technology out there that uses public
>spectrum over a 6 mile distance ?
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last time i looked, cisco didn't sell 802.11 wireless cards for $4K each
. . .<br>
<br>
2 x 802.11 cards + antenna should be able to do it. take good care
in getting an appropriate antenna with suitable gain.<br>
the cisco website has a spreadsheet that allows you to calculate the
required gain.<br>
<br>
if you don't want 2 x PC's with 802.11 cards in it, then 2 x wireless
access-points or 2 x wireless bridges would work.<br>
still nowhere near $8K . . .<br>
<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
lincoln.<br>
NB. line-of-sight is required.<br>
<br>
At 09:39 PM 22/04/2001 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>I saw this question
posed on on the forums at AnandTech.com and would love to see if it is
plausible.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>"Ok, here is the deal. I have a freind
that lives about 5.7 miles away from me and almost has a line of sight.
He would probably have to put an antenae on his house to get a line of
sight to mine. At my house, I have no options for high speed internet
access, at all, but at his house, he can get cable. I got to thinking,
and I came up with an idea. What if I could get ahold of some wireless
networking equipment that I could use to network to his house, then he
could get cable, we could split the monthly bill, and I would have cable
access at my house.<br>
<br>
Here is my question: What equipment could I use to do this? I found some
stuff on cisco's site, but it costs about $8000. The speed does not have
to be supper fast, but I would like to have something at least the speed
of ISDN.<br>
<br>
I want to know what other people have to say abhout this, so shoot.
"</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Is this plausible. Is there any
technology out there that uses public spectrum over a 6 mile distance
?</font></blockquote></html>
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