I am running a link in a two hop setup very similar to what you are looking for. This is two radio links that are configured for P2P mode. Each link has a distance of about 4 km. There is a router in the middle.
The link path has fairly good signal margin (25 dB S/N) but have packet loss in the magnitude of about 1/1000 - 1/100 due to the fact that the radio path goes very close (100m) from a flight radar system running at +33 dBm at 1300 MHz. Performance is about 1-2 Mbps when using 802.11b radios. /Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:49 AM Subject: [BAWUG] multi-hop network? > Okay, my ISP is dropping all their frame relay lines, including mine. > Cable Internet is not an option because they refuse to run cable TV > down my road. I'm 5.5 miles from the CO, so DSL won't work. > Point-to-point leased line is horrifically expensive. Satellite > Internet is a last option. I might even be able to afford fiber, but > that's a research project, not a reality. Reality is that I need to > get from my house either to my ISP or else to some place that has > Cable Internet. Reality is also that I lack line of sight to either. > > So, I'm looking at having to provision a multi-hop network. What is > the current state of the art? Should I buy pairs of WRT54G, > cross-connect their Ethernets, and throw them into plastic buckets on > rooftops, one with an onmi and the other with a directional pointing > at the next hop? > > -- > --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Freedom means allowing > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | people to do things the > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 cell | majority thinks are > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 212-202-2318 VOIP | stupid, e.g. take drugs. > _______________________________________________ > BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list > [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
