roadrunner 1/2 mile away

I have roadrunner cable 1/2 mile away. No DSL or anything else except dial
up................................................ ...slow...................
.............................slow................. .....

Any reccomendations for the wireless connection? I am so bored with dial
up. I pegged 2.1mb/sec at my fathers house with road runner. Saddly no
sight distance but less than 1 mile away.

HELP DIAL UP SUC%S!

-David

"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote...
> I have roadrunner cable 1/2 mile away. No DSL or anything else except
dial
>
up................................................ ...slow.................
...
> ............................slow.................. ....
>
> Any reccomendations for the wireless connection? I am so bored with
dial
> up. I pegged 2.1mb/sec at my fathers house with road runner. Saddly no
> sight distance but less than 1 mile away.

Many here can attest here that 1/2 mile is very doable with off the
shelf wireless gear that allows for external high gain antenna
connectivity. However they will also all agree that it will require
line-of-sight...

Lots of power (1/2 watt or more) and gain (10 dbi or more) can
punch through some trees, 1/2 mile thicket - doubtful...

If you can use the nearby tallest trees, setup bridging AP's in
weatherproof boxes and homebrew antennas in the top of
them, and it will work...

Otherwise you could try some of the 900 mhz stuff that is
offered on the likes of eBay, just be aware that trees effect
this too, typically it isn't nearly as fast as 802.11b gear or as
cheap, but it can be reflected easier for bouncing off stuff...

You could also try using compatible D-Link gear such as the
DWL-900+AP and 800+AP's which can be used as a
repeater and park it in the middle at the highest point available...

- 800+ -
- Repeater -
Father - Mode - Son
900+ - 1/2 mile - 900+
AP Mode >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Client Mode

I've seen good ranges from the 800+APs with stock antennas...

Using an off the shelf linksys AP without external antenna and a node with a
dodgy lil can-tenna i get about a mile none-line of sign down a main road.
It's slightly over the hill and around the corner too .

As darrel said 900mhz gear is good. It's no where near as bad as the 2.4ghz
gear with line of sight and ortho it's alot slower its fast as most
broadband connections.

Tree's are a pain in the arse. I had to use a rather high gain antenna
eather side of a pile of tree's just to get a stable link. Also moving the
antenna to 50cm this way or that made a big difference when punching trees.



"Darrel Toepfer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:YPMeb.24510$(E-Mail Removed).. .
> "David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote...
> > I have roadrunner cable 1/2 mile away. No DSL or anything else except
> dial
> >
> up................................................ ...slow.................
> ..
> > ............................slow.................. ....
> >
> > Any reccomendations for the wireless connection? I am so bored with
> dial
> > up. I pegged 2.1mb/sec at my fathers house with road runner. Saddly no
> > sight distance but less than 1 mile away.
>
> Many here can attest here that 1/2 mile is very doable with off the
> shelf wireless gear that allows for external high gain antenna
> connectivity. However they will also all agree that it will require
> line-of-sight...
>
> Lots of power (1/2 watt or more) and gain (10 dbi or more) can
> punch through some trees, 1/2 mile thicket - doubtful...
>
> If you can use the nearby tallest trees, setup bridging AP's in
> weatherproof boxes and homebrew antennas in the top of
> them, and it will work...
>
> Otherwise you could try some of the 900 mhz stuff that is
> offered on the likes of eBay, just be aware that trees effect
> this too, typically it isn't nearly as fast as 802.11b gear or as
> cheap, but it can be reflected easier for bouncing off stuff...
>
> You could also try using compatible D-Link gear such as the
> DWL-900+AP and 800+AP's which can be used as a
> repeater and park it in the middle at the highest point available...
>
> - 800+ -
> - Repeater -
> Father - Mode - Son
> 900+ - 1/2 mile - 900+
> AP Mode >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Client Mode
>
> I've seen good ranges from the 800+APs with stock antennas...
>
>

Dr LG wrote:

> As darrel said 900mhz gear is good. It's no where near as bad as the 2.4ghz
> gear with line of sight and ortho it's alot slower its fast as most
> broadband connections.

900MHz gear? Who was talking about that? I didn't see Darrell mention
900MHz gear. I'm not even sure how much 900MHz gear is available any more.

Dana

"Dana Myers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote...
> Dr LG wrote:
>
> > As darrel said 900mhz gear is good. It's no where near as bad as the
2.4ghz
> > gear with line of sight and ortho it's alot slower its fast as most
> > broadband connections.
>
> 900MHz gear? Who was talking about that? I didn't see Darrell mention
> 900MHz gear. I'm not even sure how much 900MHz gear is available any
more.

<paste>
Otherwise you could try some of the 900 mhz stuff that is
offered on the likes of eBay, just be aware that trees effect
this too, typically it isn't nearly as fast as 802.11b gear or as
cheap, but it can be reflected easier for bouncing off stuff...
</paste>

There is a bit of it floating around, prices are from reasonable to
obnoxious. None of it is a fast as the broadband connection he mentioned
was available, but way faster than his dialup connection...

Darrel Toepfer wrote:

> Otherwise you could try some of the 900 mhz stuff that is
> offered on the likes of eBay, just be aware that trees effect
> this too, typically it isn't nearly as fast as 802.11b gear or as
> cheap, but it can be reflected easier for bouncing off stuff...
> </paste>
>
> There is a bit of it floating around, prices are from reasonable to
> obnoxious. None of it is a fast as the broadband connection he mentioned
> was available, but way faster than his dialup connection...

I went back and realized my error - apologies offered.

I still have a double-handful of WaveLAN 915 doo-dads.
My personal take is that 900MHz is basically in the last stages
of EOL, it has no market momentum. If you can find stuff to make
a specific solution work, great, be sure to get spares at the same
time ;-)

Which is consistent with what you said.

Dana

"Dana Myers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote...
> Darrel Toepfer wrote:
>
> > Otherwise you could try some of the 900 mhz stuff that is
> > offered on the likes of eBay, just be aware that trees effect
> > this too, typically it isn't nearly as fast as 802.11b gear or as
> > cheap, but it can be reflected easier for bouncing off stuff...
> > </paste>
> >
> > There is a bit of it floating around, prices are from reasonable to
> > obnoxious. None of it is a fast as the broadband connection he
mentioned
> > was available, but way faster than his dialup connection...
>
> I went back and realized my error - apologies offered.
>
> I still have a double-handful of WaveLAN 915 doo-dads.
> My personal take is that 900MHz is basically in the last stages
> of EOL, it has no market momentum. If you can find stuff to make
> a specific solution work, great, be sure to get spares at the same
> time ;-)
>
> Which is consistent with what you said.

I was pondering using some of it for long range backhauls, it ended up
being cheaper/simpler to just geaux higher with the 802.11b antennas. You
need to make sure the hardware supports bridging, some of it doesn't, if
that is the application you are looking for...