[Wolves] Wireless Networking

Matthew Keay wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Sep 18 12:58:00 2002


> Talking of wireless networking, I've seen range of 100m quoted, is this
> standard for all makes of equipment?
> And is this a absolute maximum, or is in practice is the range much greater
> and the 100m just a 'guaranteed' to cover themselves?
> What about the building materials that the signal has to pass thru?
>
>
> I'm getting 1Mb broadband in 10 days, and I have a friend who lives 120m from
> me who I could sell bandwidth to - but I don't want to buy the hardware if it
> is unlikely to work that far.
>
> Cheers
>
> Wayne

This should definately be feasable without additional kit, esp if you have
line of sight. If not - a cheap omnidirectional antenna 10-20 quid from
solwise.co.uk iirc and you're away.

Matthew