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Re: [PLUG] OpenWRT and covering a large area with wireless
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Randy,
I've had good luck with multiple Linksys WRT54G ( before they reduced
the RAM ),
Sveasoft software, and PublicIP.net firewall.
See my 1000 ft x 2000 ft outdoor WiFi area at West Chester
(Brandywine) Airport:
http://n99.com/wifi/
Pictures of the installation are at: http://n99.com/albums/wifi/
This system has been running for nearly 2 years un-attended.
PS: You should know the regulations about hooking up non factory antennas
to WiFi units. Certain combinations are illegal - and Sveasoft allows
channels
above #11 which are not legal in the US. If you interfere with a HAM
operator
and have violated any FCC rules you can be sure you will have a problem with
the HAM and/or FCC and others.
Lee Marzke
Not a HAM - but an FCC "PG"
Randy Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
Two things that may be somewhat related. I am thinking about playing
with flashing a router with OpenWRT and wanted to know if anybody had
suggestions for hardware. I remember hearing Chris Shank talk about
doing this with some Buffalo routers.
The other thing is I have a friend who has a business where the
warehouse/offices are on her property but separated from her house by
a few hundred feet. Currently she has an Airport wireless router in
the warehouse trying to share the network wirelessly with her
computers in the house. The problem is the signal is extremely weak so
she cannot reliably connect to the network from her house. I was
thinking of either getting a different router that would allow
connecting a more powerful antennae or using a couple of wireless
routers to increase the coverage. One of the issues is I can't put any
hardware in between the house and the warehouse so putting a repeater
in her house may suffer from the same problems as her computer has
now.
Does anybody have any suggestions either way? What kind of hardware
would I be looking for for the former? Can I do this with two routers
that I have flashed with OpenWRT? Is there a simpler way than I have
asked about?
Thanks,
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