looking for a nice powerful wireless bridge

[gigeorge]

to cover a 500 meter radius ish..

was thinking the WET610N as it covers a b g & n...


its for a farm and need to cover most of the yard etc - so tall buildings involved - can i get some sort of external arial?

 

[Skidilliplop]

You can get specialist point to point bridges for this. Motorolla do short and long range ones. We have both. One does 1Gbps over a 300m gap (but it will go a bit further) and the long range ones we have running backup links to a site 26km away @ about 10meg throughput.
I'll see if i can find the exact models we use. I'm assuming this is used just for bridging two geograpically separate ethernet networks?

 

[gigeorge]

Thats right, just for the bridging, will obv plug a wifi router into the other end..

 

[Skidilliplop]

Yeah this is the kind of kit you want. I'll get those model numbers.

 

[Skidilliplop]

My Bad our 1Gig link isn't motorolla it's a Bridgewave unit, the model of which I can't remember i'd have to track it down on the network and log into the management interface.
It's predecessor (and current failover backup) is a Motorolla PTP-600.

Basically this is the kind of unit you want. http://ap.cgiss.motorola.com/wibb_e...S_PTP_54600-58600_SS_08-50_Updt_021110_r4.pdf
But there are different variants that will be cheaper and offer different speed capabilities.

Edit: probably more appropriate for you would be the 43Mbps PTP-400 series. They're about £4000. Which sounds steep, but it's a one off cost which makes them lots cheaper than the equivalent in leased lines in the long term.

 

[gigeorge]

THANKS for your help

 

[Skidilliplop]

You're welcone. Tbh I didn't expect this to be an area of experience I'd be sharing on OcUK. It's a bit of a niche.

 

[gigeorge]

Yeah, i think sometimes i expect too much for a clocking forum - but you never know youre luck eh ? And this time it turned up trumphs !