Dear list- Since I can't get any ADSL in my new house, I need to try and share my parents' ADSL. They live about 800m away, within line of sight. Ideally I want to do this with a point-to-point wireless bridge.
I believe that a couple of Linksys WRT54G units with OpenWRT are the best bet for the hardware, and then a couple of suitable antennas. I already have a 3com rod type antenna (somewhere around 75cm long I'd guess, from memory) which might do for one end. For the other end, I saw that commercial yagi type or directional patch antennas are available at reasonable prices [1]. I did keep an old Sky dish in case that was useful - and I found an article about it here http://www.trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm but it looks quite involved. There are also the cantennas and WokFi methods. I'm not especially clever on RF stuff and I know a few people on the list are. Can anyone advise? Has anyone set something similar up? Best regards, John [1] For example, http://www.wifi-antennas.co.uk/index.php?target=products&product_id=20 -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
