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This is a little overkill for this. I'm just trying to connect 2 houses
a couple hundred feet apart (from AP to computer...). With a laptop and
netstumbler i can get a signal halfway to the neighbor's lawn... so I
figure a boost on one end or the other would do the trick.
Already tried Ethernet over power, and it seems they're not on the same
trasformer which we had hoped.
digitaldevice@hotmail.com wrote:
> We tried putting antennas on PCI WIFI cards and did not have very good luck.
> We did get the houses to hook up but speeds were awful. Here is my new setup
> and it works great. This has been in the works for about 6 month and it just
> has come together cause we finally could afford all the hardware.
>
> This is what we did, as like you we were in the dark and this is the first
> WIFI LAN I have set up. So im not to sure if we did it the correct way but
> it works great. I share my WIFI with 2 others. First house is about 1 mile
> the Second about 2 miles.
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> Here is my set up:
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> HOUSE 1 - My house
>
> Sector antenna on a tripod and 10 ft poll on the roof under the antenna
> mounted on the poll is a water tight box with a Dlink AP2100 inside, set up
> as a PTMP bridge. The AP is on the poll with the antenna to keep the antenna
> cable as short as possible. The cable is 24 inches long. Cat 5 wire comes
> from the AP on the poll and in my house to a Dlink 624 Router. Its job is to
> do the DHCP and MAC Address security.
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> Other security and network monitors are being added.
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> HOUSE 2 - 1 mile out:
>
> About same setup as I have. Grid antenna on a poll, on the roof with a water
> tight box and a Dlink AP2100 inside set as a PTP Bridge. Cat 5 wire down to
> a 10/100 hub.
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> HOUSE 3 - about 2 miles out.
>
> About same setup. Grid antenna on a poll, on the roof with a water tight box
> and a Dlink AP2100 inside set as a PTP Bridge. Cat 5 wire down to a Dlink
> 524 router AP. The router is configured so just the AP works. This is for
> his WIFI laptop.
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> So far this is working just great, download speeds have been better that we
> ever thought.
>
> Were planning on add more houses soon.
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> Thanks
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> DD
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> "Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:lyRSc.27$U%3.25@news.flashnewsgroups.com...
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>>Just a question. I plan on helping one of my buddies share is WiFi with
>>a neighbor.
>>
>>I'm thinking of using a directional antenna on the AP.
>>
>>Was wondering if it's better to have the Antenna on the AP, or on the
>>wireless card of the receiver? Or doesnt it matter? Or should it be
>
> both?
>
>>The AP is a M$ router, so to put an antenna on, that would have to go.
>>Replace with a linksys or something. Then I thought of putting the
>>antenna on it and directing it to the neighbors (maybe 200 feet away).
>>
>>But, if it's just the same, I could buy a wireless card for the other
>>guy's PC and put an antenna on that... Just not clear on which would
>>work best.
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