Re: Custom Wireless Solution

["Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz () idirect com>]

While we're on the subject.  Anyone willing to post their experiences with these products or competitors over distances 
that we see here.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lincoln Dale 
  To: Wojtek Zlobicki 
  Cc: nanog () merit edu 
  Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:55 PM
  Subject: Re: Custom Wireless Solution


  last time i looked, cisco didn't sell 802.11 wireless cards for $4K each . . .

  2 x 802.11 cards + antenna should be able to do it.  take good care in getting an appropriate antenna with suitable 
gain.
  the cisco website has a spreadsheet that allows you to calculate the required gain.

  if you don't want 2 x PC's with 802.11 cards in it, then 2 x wireless access-points or 2 x wireless bridges would 
work.
  still nowhere near $8K . . .


  cheers,

  lincoln.
  NB. line-of-sight is required.

  At 09:39 PM 22/04/2001 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:

    I saw this question posed on on the forums at AnandTech.com and would love to see if it is plausible.
     
    "Ok, here is the deal. I have a freind that lives about 5.7 miles away from me and almost has a line of sight. He 
would probably have to put an antenae on his house to get a line of sight to mine. At my house, I have no options for 
high speed internet access, at all, but at his house, he can get cable. I got to thinking, and I came up with an idea. 
What if I could get ahold of some wireless networking equipment that I could use to network to his house, then he could 
get cable, we could split the monthly bill, and I would have cable access at my house.

    Here is my question: What equipment could I use to do this? I found some stuff on cisco's site, but it costs about 
$8000. The speed does not have to be supper fast, but I would like to have something at least the speed of ISDN.

    I want to know what other people have to say abhout this, so shoot. "
     
    Is this plausible.  Is there any technology out there that uses public spectrum over a 6 mile distance ?