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Re: Custom Wireless Solution

  • From: Lincoln Dale
  • Date: Sun Apr 22 21:57:21 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 ?