After eventually finding a place that had broadband and a wireless view (essential things to look for when moving), the first thing that needed to be done was to put up an access point, after all, wireless is priority ;-).

After a trip to 'Serve You' and purchasing a tile roof mount bracket and then a trip to Bunnings purchasing some long wood screws, some silicon and some assistance from VK2TWU the roof mount was quickly installed, Using an 8db omni that I purchased of ebay (as my waveguide was used at Raglan and I was feeling lazy) and some modded hills antennas I quickly had the Base AP running.  Everything was going beautifully except for the backbone. :-Z.  Things were great other then some trees that decided to inconvienently grow, and problems with the edimax(7207APG) units needing a constant ping to keep a good link and competing with saurkrout obliterating the entire 2.4GHz WiFI range, things were not looking good.  There was only one solution at hand.  It was time to play with 5.8Ghz.

Since I was utilising 802.11 a/b/g cards, the switch from 2.4GHz to 5.8GHz was less than a 1 minute adjustment on the router via ssh.  The only problem was that the antennas that we were utilising were 5.2GHz to 5.8GHz panel antennas, extremely wideband and of no use to us at 5.8Ghz as they would not support a good signal at 5.8GHz.  After purchasing a 26db commercial parabolic grid (I had decided that I did not have the equipment to create and test a good 5.8GHz antenna) and an agonising wait for the new 5.8Ghz parabolic to arrive we finally connected it up and VK2TWU upgrading to a 36db 5.8GHz dish(approx 1.5 km's away), things were looking much better.  It was time to pull out the gps coordinated and line some antennas up.  After a couple of roof trips and VK2TWU dangling of his tower,

Bathurst Wireless's first 802.11a backbone link was finally bourne.

My Current Setup 

Utilising an old PIII 600 (Nicely overkill, but the smallest I had) and a couple of spare 802.11 a/b/g Cards from Yawarra and ebay, and a 10 minute install of slackware, the router was complete.   I will shortly have an installation guide available to read.  As you can tell the computer is sitting on a quickly shoved-together shelf.  The coax is approximately 3x 3m CFD400 coax going directly through a hole in the roof tile siliconed leading to the antennas.  The antennas include a 8db 2.4GHz verticle polarised omni, a 14db 2.4GHz horizontally polarised patch antenna and a 5.8Ghz horizontally polarised parabolic acting as the backbone antenna.