Thinking of establishing a point to point link between two locations approximately 400m apart. I believe they have line of sight, so would a pair of directional wi-fi antennae (think yagi is the type we need?) be able to work across that distance?
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Most probably. A while back I built two wokfi antennas and tested them at 1.2km.
Here's the thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17601109&highlight=wokfi
Here's the thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17601109&highlight=wokfi
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Yagi will most likely work, i've had a 22dBi dish antenna over a distance of 1.2 miles before and that worked well enough to stream (fairly low res) video.
The access points were 11meg and pretty domestic (USR and a Linksys i think it was)
The access points were 11meg and pretty domestic (USR and a Linksys i think it was)
I have a 18Dbi Yagi and can get to an AP a mile away (Nothing special at the other end, the AP is even in a building through a wall) at 2Mb/s (downloading at approx 40KB/s)
Putting my own equipment at the other end (even just an access point with the antenna outdoors (nothing special) would give me much better results, and a directional antenna at each end would be ideal for higher bandwidth applications.
I found a UK retailer of all the outdoor antenna's / pigtails / connectors / cables needed for wifi.
They are in an industrial unit in the middle of nowhere, and their online live chat is great (in building) so you can just ask them if they have x,y and z in before you turn up, they also deliver. (was very impressed, can you tell
?)
I got this from them:
Which coupled with my Ubiquiti SRC PCMCIA card (pictured) is awsome!
//TrX
Putting my own equipment at the other end (even just an access point with the antenna outdoors (nothing special) would give me much better results, and a directional antenna at each end would be ideal for higher bandwidth applications.
I found a UK retailer of all the outdoor antenna's / pigtails / connectors / cables needed for wifi.
They are in an industrial unit in the middle of nowhere, and their online live chat is great (in building) so you can just ask them if they have x,y and z in before you turn up, they also deliver. (was very impressed, can you tell
?)I got this from them:
Which coupled with my Ubiquiti SRC PCMCIA card (pictured) is awsome!
//TrX
Those distances, perfect line of sight using 802.11g I would say 24Mb/s would be an easily reachable goal with good kit at each end, giving you 10Mb/s each way without a problem but errata is right, you must take into account both upload and download.
//TrX
//TrX