[clug] Wide area wireless deployment

Jim Croft jim.croft at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 04:47:09 GMT 2009


Interested.  I have been toying with the idea of a clandestine
directional antenna to beam the signal a few houses up the street...
Anyone tried to do this?

Anyway, I am sure www.acma.gov.au would be only too pleased to help... :)

jim

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Janke<a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've recently moved house and am considering putting in a nice big wireless
>> router to share some (limited) internet love with my neighbours.
>>
>> What I'm hoping for is some guidance on large area wireless deployments to
>> short-cut doing all the serious research myself.  I have a single site but
>> would like to cover as much land area as I can.  Some questions bouncing
>> around my head...
>>
>> Has anyone done this?  Have any tips?
>> Any hardware recommendations?
>> Does the N standard multiple antenna setup boost range?
>> Is it worth going with an external antenna?
>> Will the signals bounce, or do I need line of sight?
>
> There is bunch of info on this sort of thing on the brismesh pages.
>
>   http://www.brismesh.org/
>
> I don't know if there is an equivalent in the ACT.
>
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