Practical hdware plan with DWL900AP?

slacky99 · 03-11-2003

After days reading about WiFi I have come up with what I hope is a practical plan to hook up a canteena to my G4 descktop mac and point it line of sight off my metropolitan hi rise balcony.This seemed like a good deal $45, http://www.computers4sure.com/produc...d=934&adid=934
Figure to buy a pigtail through fab.com hook it from the coffee canteena to the dlink and connect the access point to my mac through its ethernet port. Is this practical with the G4 tower twenty feet from the antenna and dlink? Have I missed something crucial in my search or do I have workable plan? Thanks for any suggestions.

Thought the DWL900AP was a good choice as some have said dlink is mac friendly. I run 9.2 and OSX.

peekitty · 03-11-2003

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Originally posted by slacky99
After days reading about WiFi I have come up with what I hope is a practical plan to hook up a canteena to my G4 descktop mac and point it line of sight off my metropolitan hi rise balcony.

Line of sight with what? Are you trying to set up a bridged connection? Please explain what you're trying to accomplish.

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Figure to buy a pigtail through fab.com hook it from the coffee canteena to the dlink and connect the access point to my mac through its ethernet port. Is this practical with the G4 tower twenty feet from the antenna and dlink? Have I missed something crucial in my search or do I have workable plan? Thanks for any suggestions.

You can run an ethernet segment out to 100 meters, it will have no effect at all on your 802.11 reception, I think you're confusing the two technologies. You can keep the pigtail short and place antenna and AP wherever you like.

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Thought the DWL900AP was a good choice as some have said dlink is mac friendly. I run 9.2 and OSX.

If "Mac friendly" means it doesn't come with Mac OS management software, then yes, it's very Mac friendly.

slacky99 · 03-11-2003

Thanks for your reply Peekitty. am looking to be able to piggyback on the $Bucks or other broadband network in the area. I just really want BBand.
The idea of the ethernet cable was to keep the pigtail short and place antenna and AP 20 feet away. TThe Dlink900 has an ethernet port and I thought others have said Dlink works with Macs perhaps I should go with Orinoco or belkin.

chuck2 · 03-11-2003

if $bucks means starbucks; wouldn't cable or dsl be a better idea.
Starbucks wants 29.99 a month for access.

slacky99 · 03-11-2003

Only $50 a month dsl here.

peekitty · 03-11-2003

I understand what you're doing, thanks for the clarification. The D-link will not work for you, your best bet is a wireless bridge like Linksys' WET-11 or the D-link DWL-810. You can put one at the end of an ethernet cable and power it by POE. If the DWL-810 is anything like my DWL-900AP, it has a detatchable antenna.
Your other option is a USB client adapter, but you can only go so far with a USB cable, and you'd still need a sizeable antenna cable run.

$30/month sounds like a good deal to me, and their TOS doesn't seem to contain any language addressing a semi-permanant connection. I'd go for it!

slacky99 · 03-11-2003

Alright so I need a bridge rather than an access point or I could use a usb client adapter . Got to gain a clearer understanding of these terms. Thanks again.

HAiRYANiMAL · 03-13-2003

FYI the DWL900AP is discontinued, that is why it is soo cheap.

The DWL900AP+ is the new one and is very different!

Make sure you get what you want.

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slacky99 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9	Practical hdware plan with DWL900AP? After days reading about WiFi I have come up with what I hope is a practical plan to hook up a canteena to my G4 descktop mac and point it line of sight off my metropolitan hi rise balcony.This seemed like a good deal $45, http://www.computers4sure.com/produc...d=934&adid=934 Figure to buy a pigtail through fab.com hook it from the coffee canteena to the dlink and connect the access point to my mac through its ethernet port. Is this practical with the G4 tower twenty feet from the antenna and dlink? Have I missed something crucial in my search or do I have workable plan? Thanks for any suggestions. Thought the DWL900AP was a good choice as some have said dlink is mac friendly. I run 9.2 and OSX.

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03-11-2003	#3 (permalink)
slacky99 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9	Thanks for your reply Peekitty. am looking to be able to piggyback on the $Bucks or other broadband network in the area. I just really want BBand. The idea of the ethernet cable was to keep the pigtail short and place antenna and AP 20 feet away. TThe Dlink900 has an ethernet port and I thought others have said Dlink works with Macs perhaps I should go with Orinoco or belkin.

03-11-2003	#4 (permalink)
chuck2 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 103	if $bucks means starbucks; wouldn't cable or dsl be a better idea. Starbucks wants 29.99 a month for access.

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slacky99 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9	Only $50 a month dsl here.

03-11-2003	#6 (permalink)
peekitty Macaca Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S. Florida Posts: 1,056	I understand what you're doing, thanks for the clarification. The D-link will not work for you, your best bet is a wireless bridge like Linksys' WET-11 or the D-link DWL-810. You can put one at the end of an ethernet cable and power it by POE. If the DWL-810 is anything like my DWL-900AP, it has a detatchable antenna. Your other option is a USB client adapter, but you can only go so far with a USB cable, and you'd still need a sizeable antenna cable run. $30/month sounds like a good deal to me, and their TOS doesn't seem to contain any language addressing a semi-permanant connection. I'd go for it!

03-11-2003	#7 (permalink)
slacky99 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9	Alright so I need a bridge rather than an access point or I could use a usb client adapter . Got to gain a clearer understanding of these terms. Thanks again.

03-13-2003	#8 (permalink)
HAiRYANiMAL Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 50	FYI the DWL900AP is discontinued, that is why it is soo cheap. The DWL900AP+ is the new one and is very different! Make sure you get what you want.