[Sussex] Wifi wisdom required

[Nic Ferrier]

Gareth Ablett <sussexlug at googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> 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.

You need an AP that has a replacable antenna.

WIFI Hacks by O'Reilly is very good on this sort of thing:

     http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks2

and many others.

One of the cool things that I've tried is the pringles tube antenna.


Nic