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Re: Broadband wireless net access...

From: "Damon M. Conway" <>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 17:57:14 -0600

we just setup a quick hack between two sites with yaggi aironet antennas.
it worked fairly well.  you have about 3 degrees of error between the two
antennas, and you have about 3 miles of tolerance between the two sites.
this includes the cable length between the antenna and the host the antenna
is plugged into.  the closer you can get them, the better.

each side consisted of a linux box with:
  ethernet card plugged into the tethered network
  aironet pci carrier with a 4800 pcmcia card plugged into a
  aironet antenna...i don't remember the model

we had .5 mi of los, and we were pushing ~3Mbs across it.  caveat: our
tests were spotty at best so ymmv.

damon

>Sorry that this is not wearable specificquestion...but I don't kmnow where
>else to ask.
>
>My company is throwing a party on the USS Intrepid on the 29th...anyone in
>NYC knows that the Intrepid is a aircraft carrier that is drydocked on the
>west side in Mid town manhattan.  Well...My group is doing a live cybercast
>of the event that is taking place in the belly of the boat.  We need 5-10
>Mbps of connectivity to the net and it needs to be wireless...his is for our
>different bit-rate encoded streams...we currently do one 28K, one 56K and
>one 100K each in both Windows Media player and Real G2.  
>
>The big problem is that the boat has no connectivity, nothing.  I specced
>out some wireless LAN bridges that can do 11 Mbps up to 8 miles line of
>sight- and looking out of our office window, I can see some of the boat.
>Therefore, my solution was to get 2 wireless LAN bridges, install a
>semi-permanent parabolic dish in our office pointing out of the window, and
>one on a line-of-sight are on the Intrepid.  Unfortunately, we only have
>three weeks to make this happen.
>
>So, if anyone has any ideas, please, please let me know or refer me to
>someone.  
>
>Basically, is there a broadband, non-line of sight wireless system available
>in NYC.  I want something that I can just "plug" into and have wireless BB
>net access...possible?
>
>I really appreciate it.

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