Outdoor wireless bridge between two buildings

I have to bridge two buildings approx 500m apart. They have clear line
of sight over an unused field (the owner of field won't allow us to run
fibre) and the wap devices will be sited pointing at each other on top
of two 10m lighting masts.

The access points will be power over ethernet and ip66 rated for outdoor
use and I need general reliability. It will be used to share a 2mb
leased line and a domain controller/file server in the main building.

Anyone have any recommendations on specific access points for this
purpose?

I have been looking at:-

http://www.wirelesspro.co.uk/product...roducts_id=415

jas0n wrote:
> I have to bridge two buildings approx 500m apart. They have clear line
> of sight over an unused field (the owner of field won't allow us to run
> fibre) and the wap devices will be sited pointing at each other on top
> of two 10m lighting masts.
>
> The access points will be power over ethernet and ip66 rated for outdoor
> use and I need general reliability. It will be used to share a 2mb
> leased line and a domain controller/file server in the main building.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations on specific access points for this
> purpose?

A Linksys WRT54G and WAP54G under white five gallon paint buckets would
be a darn tad cheaper and just as effective over 1,500 ft. *LOS* - even
when simply mounted on a twelve foot roof. You could even do a poor
man's POE by splicing the unused ethernet pairs to the walwart.

> > Anyone have any recommendations on specific access points for this
> > purpose?
>
> A Linksys WRT54G and WAP54G under white five gallon paint buckets would
> be a darn tad cheaper and just as effective over 1,500 ft. *LOS* - even
> when simply mounted on a twelve foot roof. You could even do a poor
> man's POE by splicing the unused ethernet pairs to the walwart.

Yes, indeed ... - I use the wap54g's as our general access points
which have proved effective.

Although this has to be done at least to some sort of standard as its
for a national company that is heavily concerned with safety, procedures
& red tape.

Also, budget is highly flexible - as in, get it done & providing it
works it will be a better solution than the adsl line they were
originally going to put in and vpn through to the file server, way too
slow.

I'll probably be putting in a ups on each end for the poe too, either
that or use the flexible budget to get our first poe switches which are
hooked up to psu's on the server room side anyway.

jas0n wrote:
> Yes, indeed ... - I use the wap54g's as our general access points
> which have proved effective.
>
> Although this has to be done at least to some sort of standard as its
> for a national company that is heavily concerned with safety, procedures
> & red tape.

Then have a licensed electrician run conduit to where you need the AP
mounted. Have him install one of those big grey outdoor rated electrical boxes.

"jas0n" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have to bridge two buildings approx 500m apart. They have clear line
> of sight over an unused field (the owner of field won't allow us to run
> fibre) and the wap devices will be sited pointing at each other on top
> of two 10m lighting masts.
>
> The access points will be power over ethernet and ip66 rated for outdoor
> use and I need general reliability. It will be used to share a 2mb
> leased line and a domain controller/file server in the main building.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations on specific access points for this
> purpose?
>
> I have been looking at:-
>
> http://www.wirelesspro.co.uk/product...roducts_id=415

a couple of Cisco boxes
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5861/index.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...279/index.html
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nope_none_@nowayspam.com says...
> jas0n wrote:
> > Yes, indeed ... - I use the wap54g's as our general access points
> > which have proved effective.
> >
> > Although this has to be done at least to some sort of standard as its
> > for a national company that is heavily concerned with safety, procedures
> > & red tape.
>
> Then have a licensed electrician run conduit to where you need the AP
> mounted. Have him install one of those big grey outdoor rated electrical boxes.
>

Thats not needed with the outdoor ip66 rated ap's with built in power
over ethernet.

It will be an electrician doing the cabling using external grade cat5e
but no need for additional power feed when you can just run the one
cable which covers it all.