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Old 01-01-2009   #1 (permalink)
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A friend recently bought an apartment and is looking to get hooked up to the local wifi. He's looking for a Yagi or equivilent (Must be high gain) to connect. The set up will entail placing the attenna outside pointing at the hotspot and then running a Cat5e to a router in the appartment.

Anyone know of a good, reasonalbly cheap, high gain attenna with a AP built in with Ethernet out?

(Long list, I know )

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A friend recently bought an apartment and is looking to get hooked up to the local wifi. He's looking for a Yagi or equivilent (Must be high gain) to connect. The set up will entail placing the attenna outside pointing at the hotspot and then running a Cat5e to a router in the appartment.
hmmm. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that your friend has received permission to connect to this Hot Spot from the owner.

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Anyone know of a good, reasonalbly cheap, high gain attenna with a AP built in with Ethernet out?
A cantenna, WiFi Antennas-Super Cantenna Wireless Booster Antenna, should do the trip and is definitely cheaper than what Streaker recommended. It's funny to me that he thinks an $80.00 antenna is "reasonably cheap."
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A cantenna, WiFi Antennas-Super Cantenna Wireless Booster Antenna, should do the trip and is definitely cheaper than what Streaker recommended. It's funny to me that he thinks an $80.00 antenna is "reasonably cheap."
Compared to some of the antennas I've used for long haul wifi links, it's stupidly cheap. They were around $350 each. One for each side, and we had four links like that. Our longest shot was 14 miles though.


The nice think about the rootennas is there's space in the enclosure for the radio. You can pull your wrt or whatever out of it's case an install it in the antenna.
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The nice think about the rootennas is there's space in the enclosure for the radio. You can pull your wrt or whatever out of it's case an install it in the antenna.
Which is exactly why I thought about it. So all you need to run to it is CAT5 with POE units. You don't need to worry about lengths of Coax and the loss associated with it.
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Which is exactly why I thought about it. So all you need to run to it is CAT5 with POE units. You don't need to worry about lengths of Coax and the loss associated with it.
Even if the hop isn't that long, running it this way , although more expensive, is logically better because of the elimination of the coax loss. This alone will eliminate many a headache when there are drop outs.
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Which is exactly why I thought about it. So all you need to run to it is CAT5 with POE units. You don't need to worry about lengths of Coax and the loss associated with it.
Home made poe is dead stupid easy as well. So far I've been able to get away with using the wall warts the units come with. I've not had to poe anything with a long enough run the resistance of the cat5 cable has really come into play.
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