From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 17 10: 1:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A539637B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12786; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:01:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20686; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:01:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14869.29305.27924.590563@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:01:29 -0700 (MST) To: Ken Key Cc: Warner Losh , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can pc to pc communicate thru wireless LAN cards? In-Reply-To: <200011170318.TAA59503@sodium.cips.nokia.com> References: <200011170152.SAA70989@harmony.village.org> <200011170318.TAA59503@sodium.cips.nokia.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Cool! What's your antenna arrangement to get that range? A custom > yagi? I've got a 2-mile clear line of sight I'd love to cover. My ISP (which does wireless) has a customer doing 8 miles, with the customer end with a custom antenna (sorry, no name, but it looks like a traditional 'microwave' dish you see on top of towers, but it's made of heavy aluminun mesh), and the 'ISP' end is a omni-directional antenna. I'm about 3/4 mile from the omni, and I get great reception. I'm pretty pleased with the performance, although during a heavy snow-storm it may have crapped out. (Either that or they were messing with it, since it worked fine during the early part of the storm, then crapped out a bit in the middle of the night during my CVSup.) Nate > > > We use old wavelan ISA cards to communicate between two boxes that are > > 5 miles apart. > > > > You can do this with the newer wavelan cards too with a PCMCIA ISA > > adapter. > > > > Warner > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- > Ken Key (key@cips.nokia.com, key@Network-Alchemy.com) > Nokia, Clustered IP Solutions, Santa Cruz, CA > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message