8dB outdoor omnidirectional antenna £37.12 incl. VAT + delivery 12dB outdoor omnidirectional antenna £57.95 incl. VAT + delivery http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-outdoorantenna.htm Good value pre-made omnidirectional antennas for setting up an access point or repeating node 🙂
15dB parabolic mesh antenna £28.95 incl. VAT www.wirelesspro.co.uk/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=32 Good value directional antenna for client use or point-to-point links.
I’m wondering.. Given that signal loss on coax is big problem with wireless networking.. How pricey is low loss coax (by the metre). Is it cheaper to make mast mountable AP (AP in a box) and run power over ethernet to it .. if not a matter of cost , a matter of performance which […]
I’ve built myself an access point using FreeBSD, and it’s dead easy! I have: One old P200 box (96meg ram, ethernet card, 2gig disk) One d-link dwl-520 prism 2.5 card A fresh install of FreeBSD on it ( http://www.freebsd.org ) Then to change this box into a functional access point takes just 5 commands! # […]
Well so far we’ve been unsuccessful at getting this working over wireless, but other people have said that it can be made to work so we will keep at it. The benefits of multicast streaming is that you can stream say a 4mbit bitrate video across the wireless and have in theory unlimited clients watching […]
Prism 2.5-based PCI card with rp-sma antenna connector. Pros: Reasonably cheap Good linux support Easily available pigtails Cons: PCI (well it’s a con if you have a laptop; Netgear’s pcmcia doesn’t have an external antenna socket) Cable runs from back of card to external antenna Uses: Hostap based repeating nodes Available from: www.ebuyer.co.uk
I’ve just got a wireless USB box – I’ll post the info here as soon as I can get to it (it’s at work)….has anyone any experience of getting this sort of thing to work under Linux and, if so, which distro? More info soon.