[KLUG Members] off topic: wireless networking long distance

[John Bridleman]

* Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> I am trying to find a relatively inexpensive solution to go about a
> quarter mile between two buildings for a network connection.  It does
> not have to be extremely high speed and I think I would have line of
> sight too.  

Line of site is important.

> I was looking at a D-Link high power 802.11b wap but they are
> $1000.00 each.  I need much less expensive for this to work out.... I
> am wondering if I put up an external antenna on an 802.11 b or g wap
> if I could make the quarter mile?  I do not know of anything else
> that would be inexpensive that would work.  

 - http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

or google for "pringles can antenna"
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org