Knight <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Hey folks,
>
> Just curious but I would like to connect to my University which my
> wife works at across the street from me.
> I am using the following router...
> http://www.lockdownwireless.com/us/i...k/images/di524
> rear.jpg
> As it is now I have wireless with my ISP to my modem in which I have
> a cable to my wireless router.
> From the router I have a direct link to my PC and use my laptop
> wirelessly to the router.
>
> I would like to disconnect from my ISP and hook up to the University
> across the street.
> I will use an external antenna but where on the router will it
> connect? The antenna has an "N"
> female connector on it.
>
> I would think I would have to go to the "WAN" port on the router...
> is this correct?
> Just not sure how to go about this connection. The antenna would go
> up on my roof with a dish
> and is probably 150' run.
>
> Thanks guys
>
> Pete
Note: With such a long coax run, you would need super-low-loss coax, LMR400, which will run $1/ft
terminated with connectors on both ends.
The other option is to mount the AP in a weatherproof NEMA enclosure as close to the antenna
location as possible and use less expensive coax on a MUCH shorter run.
Have you ever run 150' of coax ? Not fun.
With that cost, and the cost of an antenna, and the general PITA the whole deal is, you'd be better off
to just buy something like this......
http://www.engeniustech.com/Datacom/...ls.aspx?id=171
An outdoor, fully integrated (includes antenna) unit that uses POE. It's a *LOT* easier, and in the long
run, less expensive to run 150' of CAT5 cable (@ $65/1000 ft.) than coax. You would mount the device
where you plan to put the antenna, and then just run CAT5 to where it will end.
You had mentioned connecting to the WAN port. IMO, with a 'regular' rtr this IS what you would want to
do. That way, the U. would only issue 1 IP address thru DHCP, and the rtr would NAT your local inside
LAN to the U., just as it currently NAT's to your now ISP. AND, you would be isolated from all the other
U. WLAN traffic, which, again IMO, is the best way to go. There's absolutely no reason for the U.'s
other WLAN traffic to get inside your LAN. You don't want that. That's almost as bad as being
connected directly to the internet.
Now, if you were to use something like the device I linked above, you would set it to ClientMode w/NAT.
What that means is that the device would become a client on the U. WLAN, AND provide NAT for the
internal LAN. That device would then just uplink to the existing AP and you could also use the wireless
at the off-campus location, NAT'd.
I don't know the policies of connecting to the U. WLAN though, so I can't help you there.
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