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Cazam
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Re:New AP? |
- 2008/01/07 02:58 |
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Hey Ben,
firstly welcome
secondly some questions
When you stumbled from your roof what equipment were you using was it just the internal wifi card in the laptop and the built in App or did you use an external antenna and netstumbler?
can you see castrol tower from your house? as there is an access point located there and it is only about 7.6km to your house which with LOS should be a very easy link.
What church are you trying to connect?
regarding your question about cost you will be needing at a minimum a client device for both locations to connect to the network. Some form server to securely share your internet connection(so that your not sharing it with the rest of the network.)
for a client device I would recomend using something like the Wrap from Yawarra
or for a cheaper option the mikrotik rb133c see here with a r52 mini pci wireless card
here is a list of gear you will need to go with a fully external setup with just cat5 running down to your server
rb133c - routerboard
r52 - mini pci wireless card
pigtail - ufl to bulkhead N
case - weatherproof box
PoE adapter - Power over Ethernet
directional antenna
all up you are looking at about $300 plus the cost of the cat5 down to your server
your other option is to have a wireless card in your server and run coax up to your antenna but at ~$5m plus connectors it can be quite expensive unless you can mount the server in the roof close to the antenna.
if you can get a link there a re a few of us that are always willing to lend a hand to setup links
Zac
Post edited by: Cazam, at: 2008/01/07 02:59
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