[ILUG] [ot] Wireless Networks

[Declan de Lacy Murphy]

We will be using 11 megabit cards. (roughly 1 megabyte) The actual transfer
rate will depend on factors including distance, weather conditions etc. We
are expecting that over the 1 mile range for all the people allready
involved that we should get about half of the 11 Mbits. Were you using the
inbuilt aerial on the buffallo cards. We definately will not be using the
inbuilt aerials as I understand that they only designed for line of sight
over a few metres. We are planning to run cables to the roof where we will
mount proper aerials. The model we are looking at is only 20 inches long but
gives 9dBi, although we might end up using directional antennas with double
or triple that output.

I would be interested to hear about your setup with the buffallo cards.

 We will probably at some point get in a leased line for internet connection
and share it across the network.

Declan


----- Original Message -----
From: HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) <david_hamilton3 at hp.com>
To: 'Declan de Lacy Murphy' <decdelmur at iol.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] [ot] Wireless Networks


> What kind of transfer rates are you expecting?
> I tried doing one with a pair of bufallo cards, and even at 100m was
> gettting very bad rates.
> David.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Declan de Lacy Murphy [mailto:decdelmur at iol.ie]
> Sent: 21 August 2001 15:10
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> Subject: [ILUG] [ot] Wireless Networks
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> Myself and a few friends are in the process of setting up a wireless
> netowork using wireless lan cards (about $115) and better better antennas
> than the inbuilt units (about $60). We are based in Terenure in Dublin and
> we think we should be able to get a range of about 2 miles using this type
> of setup. We are at a reasonably advanced stage and plan to buy equipment
> and install at the end of september. If anyone is interested in getting
> involved then let me know. I have just set up a mailing list for this. The
> address to post is wireless at computingcreativity.com and to subscribe to it
> send an email with subscribe as the subject or unsubscribe as subject to
> unsubscribe.
>
> I would appreciate anyones thoughts on this as we are learning as we go
> along.
>
> Declan
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