Re: [PLUG] Wireless LAN Coverage in The Suburbs

[Chris "Magnus" Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 12:10 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

> Keep in mind that you are talking about two different things here.
>
> 72 miles is point-to-point only. Omni-directional is limited to about 
> 600 feet.

I haven't benchmarked the omni-directional but I would agree that the 
real range is much closer to 200 yards than 72 miles.  Seeing that this 
is farther than you can reasonably expect 10BaseT ethernet to go, I'm 
happy with that.

> And don't forget. When you are working in the un-licensed bands, YOU 
> must be willing to shutdown if somebody else is interfering with you.

It's the other way around.  You must not interfere, but you must accept 
interference.  A garage door opener has as much right to the band as a 
wireless access point.

> This is all part of the FCC Regs for un-licensed use... nominally, 
> Part 15.

Part 15 applies to a subset of what we're discussing here.  Please read 
up on this more.

- --Magnus
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