The sky tower is about the worst place in Auckland to do wireless from. The amount of noise coming off the sky tower is very high. You will only be able to cover a small area with each Cisco bridge due to interference around the CBD. The Cisco gear works in the 2.4Ghz Unlicensed band. The max power output is 4 watts at the antenna. The best thing on your home end would be a Linux box with a PCI cradle and Cisoc PCI card. Cheers, Derek Gaeth Radionet Ltd -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of James Tyson Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:10 AM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Wireless APE. Just out of interest, how many people on this list; a) live in Auckland. b) have line of sight to the sky tower. c) would be willing to help chip in for a Cisco Aironet 340 wireless RIG, or similar to their home. It's just this crazy idea I had, and I figure the more people the cheaper it is. Cheers. James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, derek wrote:
The sky tower is about the worst place in Auckland to do wireless from. The amount of noise coming off the sky tower is very high. You will only be able to cover a small area with each Cisco bridge due to interference around the CBD. The Cisco gear works in the 2.4Ghz Unlicensed band. The max power output is 4 watts at the antenna. The best thing on your home end would be a Linux box with a PCI cradle and Cisoc PCI card.
Are there any better, higher-power equivalent units? I guess cost is also a consideration here. Anyone know much about WaveLan? I've only ever played with it in an intranet type setup. --- Matt Camp --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
Hi Matt On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matt Camp wrote:
Are there any better, higher-power equivalent units? I guess cost is also a consideration here.
Not legally - the cards are restricted to 3-4 Watts by gummint regulation. Hence the reason long cable runs between aerial and card are to be avoided wherever possible - the only option for maximising output is to bolt your pc/basestation on the back of the antennae, and keep the cables real short.
Anyone know much about WaveLan? I've only ever played with it in an intranet type setup.
What do you want to know? Most of the Citylink wireless in Wgtn is Wavelan based, and it works pretty well. Getting them going with linux can be somewhat testing, but that's more a reflection on pcmcia support under linux, than the wavelan cards themselves. Cheers Si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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