That is true, They do conform to 802.11 which is the 2.4Ghz standard for indoors. It is good up to about 2500 feet away from the transmission site. The further out you go the slower the connection will run. Saying that I have seen 15kms out of this stuff, but you may only get about 500k. It depends on the quality of the install and the antenna you use. If you wanted to do it with Lucent buy a Lucent AP not ROR or COR . I have some for sale second hand. Also have some old bronze cards(10 and 2Mb) if anyone wants them. Derek Gaeth Network Manager Radionet Ltd 72 Paul Matthews Rd, Albany, Auckland +64 9 414 0300 +64 21 649173 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley(a)automagic.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:51 AM To: derek Cc: 'Matt Camp'; 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: Re: Wireless APE. On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:27:04PM +1300, derek wrote:
It is not the equipment that determines the output, but the 2.4Ghz spectrum regulations being 4 watts. It will cost you more for a WaveLan setup as Lucent's outdoor solution (COR and ROR)does not conform to 802.11. They have deployed there own proprietary polling system and they will not work with any other vendor. So if you want to use a Linux box at home to save cost you should go with Cisco, also the drivers for the Cisco card come prepackaged in the latest Linux distributions.
Lucent's bronze, silver and gold 11M turbo cards all talk 802.11b; last time I looked there was nothing to stop anybody using them for outdoor applications. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:57:35AM +1300, derek wrote:
That is true, They do conform to 802.11 which is the 2.4Ghz standard for indoors. It is good up to about 2500 feet away from the transmission site.
They do 802.11b, actually, but will fall back to the lower 802.11 symbol rates of 1MSps with 1 or 2-bit symbols using DSSS. The standard makes no restriction whether it should be used indoors or outdoors, and the performance you get depends on many factors, as you say. I have a friend who replaced the silver turbo wavelan card in his apple Airport base station with a gold card, then rigged an external antenna which he pointed at his home, about 5km line of sight from the roof of AboveNet's SJC1 facility in San Jose. [He also burned a cooling grate into the case and put a CPU fan behind it, which it makes it look very industrial :)] He gets about 4Mbit/s with 0.1% packet loss. Joe --------- 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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