Custom Wireless Solution

Mon Apr 23 01:55:44 UTC 2001

last time i looked, cisco didn't sell 802.11 wireless cards for $4K each . . .

2 x 802.11 cards + antenna should be able to do it.  take good care in 
getting an appropriate antenna with suitable gain.
the cisco website has a spreadsheet that allows you to calculate the 
required gain.

if you don't want 2 x PC's with 802.11 cards in it, then 2 x wireless 
access-points or 2 x wireless bridges would work.
still nowhere near $8K . . .

cheers,

lincoln.
NB. line-of-sight is required.

At 09:39 PM 22/04/2001 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
>I saw this question posed on on the forums at AnandTech.com and would love 
>to see if it is plausible.
>
>"Ok, here is the deal. I have a freind that lives about 5.7 miles away 
>from me and almost has a line of sight. He would probably have to put an 
>antenae on his house to get a line of sight to mine. At my house, I have 
>no options for high speed internet access, at all, but at his house, he 
>can get cable. I got to thinking, and I came up with an idea. What if I 
>could get ahold of some wireless networking equipment that I could use to 
>network to his house, then he could get cable, we could split the monthly 
>bill, and I would have cable access at my house.
>
>Here is my question: What equipment could I use to do this? I found some 
>stuff on cisco's site, but it costs about $8000. The speed does not have 
>to be supper fast, but I would like to have something at least the speed 
>of ISDN.
>
>I want to know what other people have to say abhout this, so shoot. "
>
>Is this plausible.  Is there any technology out there that uses public 
>spectrum over a 6 mile distance ?
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