Piercing a mountain? Help!

[Wesley Hosking]

Eqeeu writes:
 > Hi
 > 
 > I want to setup a 802.11b link between my house and a
 > friends, the only problem is that there is a large
 > mountain (I think its Ainslie mountain) smack in the
 > middle of our two houses and its impossible to get
 > line of site.
 > 
 > Is this a problem?
 > 
 > Would we have to go around or over the mountain with
 > an extra repeater WAP somewhere, or is it possible to
 > use two high gain 24dBi+ directional antenna and
 > "pierce" straight through the centre of the mountain?
 > 

An article on doing passive repeaters is at :

 http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207.html.

I think you can get more doco. from there.

wes