Medium Range Wireless Networking

[da644]

Hi Everyone.

I'm looking to find a solution to the following:

A client has two building about 1500 meters apart (in a straight line) and they would like to connect there networks together using some sort of wireless networking if possible.

Now I know that the 802.11 kit can only do about 300 meter max, so that is no good, but is there any kit around that can network at this range and at a reasonable speed (10Mbps). The two building are on pretty level ground with very good line sight (nothing in between really).

Any ideas, websites, product suggestion, etc would be very helpful.

Thanks

Best Regards

Andrew.

 

[InnoTech]

check this site out, it will give you what you need. keep in mind this is just one of hundreds routes you can take. This can also be done useing different company's eruiptment, so if the price isn't right look for more.

http://www.radiolan.com

hope it helps "Jack of all trades. Master of none."

 

[LloydSev]

http://www.smartbridges.com

They have some good equipment.. if it's in line of sight and everything... you can just use an outdoor weather box and use the indoor AirPoint and AirBridge(products from SmartBridges) and connect via small directional antennas. Smart Bridges equipment is generally inexpensive.. $150 for an indoor AP and Bridge(Need outdoor weather box) and $350 for Outdoor AP and Bridge.

They work good so far as we can tell.. and we have 20 clients so far on our ISP.. as well as 1 of our main APs is a SmartBridges Outdoor AP and Bridge, and 1 of our internal network AP and Bridges is an indoor.

 

[trekki2]

There are lots of possibilites out there, I'm using Lucent, which is now called orinco

http://www.orinocowireless.com/,

you can choose from a large variety og models, and outdoor antennas. If you choose the simpler models, you have a PCMCIA card which has a small connection for an external antenne. The more advance models have room for two cards. I have one transmitter/sender at our main office, and one with two cards at the top of a silo. The silo has two antennas one directed at our main office, the other at a resthome, and junior high school. I have installed directional antennas, and we have no problems with communication at 11 Mbits. This is in Norway, where we have snow, wind and rain, and I have only lost communication once, when the snow flakes were almost 2 inches, and visability was down to 25 feet.
Remember you must have "clear line of sight".

There are two systems: 802.1b, which operates on 2.4 Ghz and 11 Mbits, and the newy 802.1a, which operates in the 5 Ghz range with 54 Mbits per sec.

If you are working in Europe, the standard for 5 Ghz is still not 100%, as Europe must play with the specifications.

Good Luck

 

[da644]

Thanks for the information guys... With the SmartBridge and SmartPoint I take it I would only need one SmartBridge at the end where the main network is and then a SmartPoint at the end is the secondary network. Is that correct?

Best Regards

Andrew.

 

[LloydSev]

Correct, you would need an Access Point at one end, feeding out the signal, and a Bridge at the other end to receive and associate to the AP.

 

[dreamtimenet]

Hello Trekki2,

I am in Europe and having all kinds of trouble getting a good high speed internet connection in the town where I live. I am about 80 km away from the main capital city.

I would like to bring in anywhere from 1-10 meg connection directly to my office. Then I want to go wireless within the center of my town and offer a service for this.

The question I have at the moment is the best way to bring in this amount of bandwidth going wireless from the capital. They have a 26 ghz frequency that requires a license to use. They call it fixed wireless access and use it for the big companies to go point to point and costs lots of money.

The 2.4 ghz frequency probably has lots of congestion within the local area once I get the bandwidth into my office and go wireless at 2.4 ghz to local users.

It seems the best way for me to go is to buy the equipment myself and get a bandwidth connection in the capital and just run it out to my city myself and save money doing it this way.

Do you have any suggestions for how I can do this? Thanks.

S

 

[acet]

LloydSev ,
i have just setup a wireless client to my LAN using smartbridges. We noticed a degradation of service on our lan. Our gateway started timing out frequently. when we diconnect the wireless client, the replies improve.
can u assist. i presently don't have a bandwidth manager.

acet.
acetltd@yahoo.co.uk