Re: need to send wireless signal 300+ feet - help needed

AdmV. AdmV.

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On Friday, Jul 4, 2008, JoannaK wrote:
>
> I agree with AdmV here.
>
> 100 or 300 meters is NO technical problem with Wlans, IF there is clear
> line of sight between antennas. A friend of mine had (couple years ago)
> wlan-connection to local university (with permission) using external
> antennas. Measuring from map distance is about 1400 meters (over 4000
> feet)
>
> Yes, he had large directional antennas at both ends and indeed the
> connection was flaky at heawy rain and I'm quite sure it was against the
> RF-regulations (propably downright illegal) to use those, BUT the point
> is.. it worked well many years.
>
> It was the older standard and tech (802.11b with Orinoco cards) so I have
> no idea how well those systems would work these days.. I do know though
> that my current wlan (802.11g that connected to ilmatar.net) seems to be
> working quite well trough couple concrete walls without any extra antennas.

This is wholly doable.
The only real question is - is the 12 acre area built up. And secondly, does it have clear line of sight. As for some of the knuckle heads talking bullshit round here, its not even expensive to rig up something to do 300 metres in such circumstances.

A couple of cheap directional antenna's and I believe its workable. I gave a link to a cheap antenna that claimed it could hit 2 miles. Even when you point that out, you still get the knuckles heads squeeling.

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