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last time i looked, cisco didn't sell 802.11 wireless cards for $4K each
. . .<br>
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2 x 802.11 cards + antenna should be able to do it. take good care
in getting an appropriate antenna with suitable gain.<br>
the cisco website has a spreadsheet that allows you to calculate the
required gain.<br>
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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.<br>
still nowhere near $8K . . .<br>
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cheers,<br>
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lincoln.<br>
NB. line-of-sight is required.<br>
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At 09:39 PM 22/04/2001 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>I saw this question
posed on on the forums at AnandTech.com and would love to see if it is
plausible.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>"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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I want to know what other people have to say abhout this, so shoot.
"</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Is this plausible. Is there any
technology out there that uses public spectrum over a 6 mile distance
?</font></blockquote></html>