Also, for 150m, you don't need 2 directional antennas. You could get a single omni antenna at your house and a single parabolic grid antenna at the barn. You probably don't even need amplifiers.
Source: I built the wireless deployment at the blue bomber stadium. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Rob Guderian <[email protected]>wrote: > Neat. I have a wrt54g in my garage right now (as a prototype project). > I was going to leave it there, but might have to repurpose it. > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Adrian Stoness <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > _______________________________________________ > 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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