[Sussex] Wifi wisdom required

Andrew Guard andrew at andrewguard.com
Sun Jan 22 10:04:58 UTC 2006


Steve Dobson wrote:
> Gareth
> 
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:52:00PM +0000, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> 
>>I know a lot of you know a bit about wifi and such, I have task that I would
>>like to do, I have ADSL here and my sister lives round the corner approx
>>200m (660ft) (this is an estimate using google maps and take the longest
>>possible distance it could be i may well be less.) as the crow flys from
>>where I live, how hard and what hardware would I need to acomplish sharing
>>of the internet access.
> 
> 
> Do you have a line of sight path between her house and your?  If so then two
> directional antennas will probably provide the link.  With line of sight some
> impressive distances have been obtained - but as I understand it line of sight is
> important.  WiFi doesn't pass well thought walls and stuff.
> 

Also it worth knowing before hand during bad weather (ie heavy rain etc) 
the connection could go down.  But in normal weather it could work fine 
with very stong signal.




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