On Monday 01 February 2010 14:08:54 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > 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
Hi Clive Have a look at these guys http://www.wifi-antennas.co.uk/index.php?target=categories&category_id=209 I have a pair of the 16DBi sqaure one's setup as a bridge although the distance for me is only around 300mtr but I phoned them and they were very helpful, they also supplied a couple of basic wireless access points. Tim -- 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
