Wireless LAN on housing estate

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Hi,

another question ( i have a thirst for knowledge ......

Another project i am looking at, involves a housing estate. The property to
be considered as the base station is at the top of a hill, and all of the
other properties have good clear line of sight to this building. I would be
thinking of connecting between 50 - 200 houses to this base station.

Could anyone suggest a suitable configuration of equipment.

Would i need a simple antenna with amp (power?) at the base station, and all
the houses could use standard wifi cards ?, would they need external antenna
? directional ?would they need amplifier ?#

any input on types of antenna, amplifiers, etc would also be useful.

i am new to all this, all i have really used are linksys ap and cards.

thanks for your input.

Kev.

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The Hat <beavis@mistral.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> another question ( i have a thirst for knowledge ......
>
> Another project i am looking at, involves a housing estate. The property to
> be considered as the base station is at the top of a hill, and all of the
> other properties have good clear line of sight to this building. I would be
> thinking of connecting between 50 - 200 houses to this base station.
>
> Could anyone suggest a suitable configuration of equipment.

Are the other properties all round the base station , or downhill of it?

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Proxim also makes a good product for this situation. The MP.11A radios
are 802.11A multipoint, have bandwidth limiting built into each
device, small device with good performance but can be a pain to setup
for the inexperienced. US price is under $1,000 for a base station
unit and under $600 for a subscriber unit, antennas extra of course.

BTW the bandwidth limiting is in the unit and not over the air so
there is no performance hit to other users.

"The Hat" <beavis@mistral.co.uk> wrote in message news:<xJ7qc.105$0Y4.7@newsfe1-win>...
> Hi,
>
> another question ( i have a thirst for knowledge ......
>
> Another project i am looking at, involves a housing estate. The property to
> be considered as the base station is at the top of a hill, and all of the
> other properties have good clear line of sight to this building. I would be
> thinking of connecting between 50 - 200 houses to this base station.
>
> Could anyone suggest a suitable configuration of equipment.
>
> Would i need a simple antenna with amp (power?) at the base station, and all
> the houses could use standard wifi cards ?, would they need external antenna
> ? directional ?would they need amplifier ?#
>
> any input on types of antenna, amplifiers, etc would also be useful.
>
> i am new to all this, all i have really used are linksys ap and cards.
>
> thanks for your input.
>
> Kev.