Wireless bridge

Thu Jun 18 13:24:31 UTC 2009

We've used aironet since before cisco owned it. We just recently went fiber
for most of the district, but still running one aironet connection a good
distance apart.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:05:56AM -0400, Peter Boone wrote:
> > Hi NANOG,
> >
> > I'm looking for some equipment recommendations for a wireless bridge
> between
> > two locations approximately 500-800 meters apart. The current setup for
> this
> > company has been extremely unstable and slow. I don't have a lot of
> > experience in this area so I was hoping someone could give me a few
> > pointers.
>
>         I've had good luck with Cisco Aironet gear running in repeater
> mode.
>
>        I've done the cheap linksys thing as well and it just did not work
> as well as using some equipment that was better designed.
>
>        I have actually found the non-IOS software on the aironet 350/340 to
> be more usable than the IOS software.  You need to have your network be
> consistent.
>
>        You also have the obvious interference challenges with any
> unlicensed
> deployment.
>
>        - Jared
>
> some of the equipment i've used:
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/5-Cisco-Aironet-350-WAPs-AP352E2R-A-K9_W0QQitemZ200351697798QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Routers?hash=item2ea5e44b86&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Cisco-AIR-AP1121G-A-K9-Aironet-1100-1121-Access-Point_W0QQitemZ190313803887QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Routers?hash=item2c4f96306f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50
>
>
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