On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:11:44PM -0400, Skip Gundlach wrote: > By popular request, here's the transcript:
[snip] Thank you very much, Skip - great run-down, and much appreciated! Just FYI, though: if the furthest WiFi connection you've ever made is 7 miles (which is a heck of a distance, given the average!), then you don't need all that much height. Assuming a 7-mile maximum distance, here's a chart of required line-of-sight heights for a range of assumed access point heights: AP height Required receiver height 0' 38' 1' 27' 2' 23' 3' 20' 4' 17' 5' 15' 10' 9' For the rest of it, you can (of course) reverse the two columns; in other words, if the AP antenna is 38' high, you can have yours at the surface of the water, and you'd still see them at 7 miles. :) Given that the average ISP/AP owner is *trying* to get the service to you, they'll usually have a fairly tall antenna. -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
