[36852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Custom Wireless Solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohan Sundar)
Mon Apr 23 03:00:47 2001
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:57:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mohan Sundar <xmohansundar@yahoo.com>
To: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>,
Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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How secure is this connection? Does 802.11
provide security implicitly?
Thanks.
--- "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
>
> > I saw this question posed on on the forums at
> AnandTech.com and would
> > love to see if it is plausible.
>
> Oh, quite.
>
> > 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.
>
> Cisco BR340's - they're $900/each, and work well in
> bridge mode. As
> someone already stated, make sure you get some good
> high-gain (and
> narrow-beam directional - we use 10 degree yagi)
> antenna's.
>
> > Is this plausible. Is there any technology out
> there that uses public
> > spectrum over a 6 mile distance ?
>
> With line of sight, they claim they can go 9+ miles.
> Of course, weather
> does affect it - one of our spans tends to go down
> when there's just the
> right kind of heavy rain.
>
> Theoretic speed is 11Mbit/sec - effective (real)
> speed is about
> 6Mbit/sec. (YMMV, that's on a 1/2 mile span)
>
> --
> Dominic J. Eidson
> "Baruk
> Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli
>
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