On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jun Tanamal wrote: > Anyone knows where to 'eyeball' these Access Points thingy? > I want the one that can be used with an external antenna like the > 'pringles type' but I plan to make my own yagi or corner-reflector type > . I'm living about a kilometer away from our office and wanted to manage > our linux servers and have a highspeed access from the house. > Again more power to PLUG!
Pringles type wireless antenna gives you additional geek points, actually using it outside will give you problems in the future. As you have mentioned, yagi type antennas would be better. I sent an e-mail to ph-isp like this one. Basically, you can do with one or even without those hardware access points as recommended by the manufacturers. Lucent/Orinoco wireless cards (dunno about the others, might work, but have not personally tested it.) can talk to each other without those expensive access points. What you do is setup a linux server on your office and install the wireless card & an ethernet card (ethernet card is then connected to your LAN or the internet.) The Linux server will act as a router/bridge. Put a beefier antenna on both sides and that's it. Have done this, but using google, have not seen anyone doing this. regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
