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Re: wanted: wireless magic tricks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Haney)
Thu Aug 16 13:15:45 2001
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:11:01 -0400
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Craig A. Haney" <craig@seamless.kludge.net>
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At 12:51 PM -0400 16/08/2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:01:54AM -0500, Cerqua, Toby wrote:
>> client needs 45Mbps pushed over 20 miles... and he wants it wireless. the
>> kicker is that they don't want a T3 because it is "too expensive" and it
>> would take too long to get installed. it doesn't need to be constant, but he
>> wants to move of 2.5GB within 45 minutes. this is in the chicago area, if
>> that helps any. so, i don't know, satellite?
>
>802.11a might do what you need. Not sure if it has been standardized
>yet, but if not there are a number of proprietary implementations
>in the same speed range. It promises 50Mbps with similar properties
>to 802.11b.
i read somewhere 802.11a was going to be like 50ft distance. you'll
need lots of wireless bridges.
-craig
>20 miles is going to be a long throw, but not outside the range of
>possibilities if you have line of site and good rooftop acesss. You
>will need some big antennas though. A site in the middle making it
>2 10 meg shots would be ideal.
>
>--
>Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
>Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
>Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
