the wrt54g's seem to handle the cold prity good had one going in -40 temps for a while with no heating
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Rob Guderian <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah, I'm talking outdoors, but not extreme distance. I could throw > money at this project, but origin of the project was to build a > cantenna - I just needed an application for it to motivate myself. I'm > also choosing to to this on the cheap as part of the challenge. > Reliability/throughput is ... not a huge deal - I don't exactly have > clients waiting on me. > > Somewhat better breakdown of the problem domain: > Farmyard. Main house, 2 outlying buildings that are about 100-150m out > from the house. Both have south-facing windows I can use to warm an > area to consumer-grade hardware levels using both a greenhouse effect, > or with some kind of heater if required. > > So, stage 1 is get wireless to the outlying buildings. Stage 2 is to > install sensors indoors, and outdoors. I'll probably go with Raspberry > pis - and have them report back with images, humidity, temperature, > etcetcetc. But that's longer term, and will grow organically. > > >Note the 2 antennas are on the same "radio" / in the same collision > domain so you can't point them to different places or use them as separate > "networks". > > That's true. I'm planning on keeping them on the same network, and it > will cause a hidden node problem at the hub router in the house, but, > I'm not going to be pushing massive throughput, and I think it'll be > minor. > > Adam: Which kind of Cantenna dis you build? I guess it was successful, > what kind of range are you getting? > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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