Beam through trees: no
Beam through trees with leaves: even more no
Beam through water: no
Beam through buildings: depends
bricks: sorta
wet bricks/block/cement: nope
Beam through roofs: yeah - depending on what they are made out ofRemember - you MUST have a line of sight connection to make a reliable point-to-point connection between two facilities using 802.11 and even though you might have a line of sight now it could change in the future. Establishing a real link is harder than you might think at times. My last wireless job I had to try to find a line of sight between a pier and a US military base in Korea. Turns out a line of sight was impossible so I had to propose a bank shot off a hill.
Anyway, in the end neither one would work (the hill was 'owned' by Korea Telecom) so there was no wireless connection to be had.
Greg
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 08:06 PM, Jim Ray wrote:
I'm trying to get some NFR equipment from SMC for that purpose. They seem to stay out of stock. Me thinks some tuned Yagis or parabolic antennas with some Layer 2 hardware would make a sweet point to point connection with DS3 speeds and no major price tag. Life is good.
Question: will they beam through obstructions like trees, roofs, buildings...
i-----Original Message----- From: Jason Tower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [TriLUG] wireless bridge?
generally speaking, can the current generation of 802.11 wireless routers that sell for around $50 or sometimes even less work as an ethernet bridge (in conjunction with another wireless bridge or ad-hoc with a wireless nic)? i neither want nor need NAT/DHCP/firewall, allneed is layer 2 bridging for wireless devices. i know that a few manufacturers sell devices specifically designated as bridges but they seem to cost twice a much as the routers despite the fact that they have less functionality. has anyone tried this? _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
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