Andre M. V. wrote: >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 > There is supposed to be a restriction on the use on antennas on this cards. But i dont know if the ntc can actually get you for that. Like using a big antenna on you celfone is supposed to be illegel.
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