At 11:01 PM 11/7/2001 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Duh! Read it again. "802.11'd to DSL to a very remote web site?" That DSL line could be clear across town.
Not with 802.11 anything will it be 'clear across town'. A few hundred yards w/ 802.11b and maybe a mile with 802.11a. Now if you're talking directional then it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to ask "Where does that nifty parabolic point? Why, at that other nifty parabolic. Well, gentlemen, how's 'bout we take 'em both down?"
At 2.4 GHz there is little need for a parabolic to achieve 12dB or more gain. Small, flat, slot and yaggis may be constructed on circuit boards and placed in innocuous enclosures and even hidden in walls.
If you want distance you'll either have to add an illegal final or else use packet or some other mechanism (probably illegaly as well).
10-20 dB amps for 2.4 are readily available and relatively inexpensive. steve