WAP11 to WAP11 Daisy

ryanerb · 01-23-2003

If i have a WAP11 at my house, a WAP11 at a neighbors house 200 feet away, and then a third wap11 at another house even further, will the furthest house be on my network and get my bandwidth that my router is putting out? basically, will the signal relay from one AP to another..... in essence, im kina asking if you could have a wap11 every 300 ft for 5 miles, and the computer at the end of the chain would still be getting the internet connection... if there are ne problems with this question, please let me know and i will try and clarify... thanks... -Ryan

edit~~please dont say... just get an antenna... i dont have a clear line of sight, (which u guys say you need), so i was going to triangulate the WAP, and hope to go around the obstacle.

edit~~i dont know if i can have a free standing antenna w/o an AP, but if i could, i would put an antenna in the place of the second Ap, so i woudlnt' need three... sorry if this has been covered, i searched daisy, and triangulate...

MarcusJClifford · 01-24-2003

Your best bet would be to search for "Repeater".

If all three locations require access then I think the best bet would be to set up house 2's WAP as a Point- to-MultiPoint bridge.
and your house and the far away house as bridge endpoints.

I dont have to much experience of this so I cant at the moment give more information.

Each ~ is 100 Feet

1~~2~~~~~~3

Tron Of Borg · 01-26-2003

Can you bounce your signal off a building to get around the obstacle? I'd rather do this with an antenna at both ends then put a repeater in between. It's just another point of failure.

If you can't bounce then set up a passive repeater. Get two patch antennas and tie them together. Aim one at one radio and the other at the other radio.

The advantage to a bounce or passive repeater besides the elemination of the middle link failure is that you preserve your bandwidth and spectrum. To repeat, you are taking over twice as long to transmit the same data. Once to receive and again to transmit at the repeater site. Or, you'd have to use 2 radios on different channels to save your bandwidth but then you have the added expense of the radio and you tie up another channel.

Tron Of Borg

01-23-2003	#1 (permalink)
ryanerb Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 3	WAP11 to WAP11 Daisy If i have a WAP11 at my house, a WAP11 at a neighbors house 200 feet away, and then a third wap11 at another house even further, will the furthest house be on my network and get my bandwidth that my router is putting out? basically, will the signal relay from one AP to another..... in essence, im kina asking if you could have a wap11 every 300 ft for 5 miles, and the computer at the end of the chain would still be getting the internet connection... if there are ne problems with this question, please let me know and i will try and clarify... thanks... -Ryan edit~~please dont say... just get an antenna... i dont have a clear line of sight, (which u guys say you need), so i was going to triangulate the WAP, and hope to go around the obstacle. edit~~i dont know if i can have a free standing antenna w/o an AP, but if i could, i would put an antenna in the place of the second Ap, so i woudlnt' need three... sorry if this has been covered, i searched daisy, and triangulate... Last edited by ryanerb : 01-23-2003 at 10:43 PM.

01-24-2003	#2 (permalink)
MarcusJClifford United Kingdom User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 130	Your best bet would be to search for "Repeater". If all three locations require access then I think the best bet would be to set up house 2's WAP as a Point- to-MultiPoint bridge. and your house and the far away house as bridge endpoints. I dont have to much experience of this so I cant at the moment give more information. Each ~ is 100 Feet 1~~2~~~~~~3 __________________ Orinoco Gold, Mobile Mark 5 DBi Mag Mount, Belkin WAP, 4x D-Link 1500 WAP / Bridges, 2x 24Dbi Parabolics, 1 12Db Omnidirectional.

01-26-2003	#3 (permalink)
Tron Of Borg Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 47	Bounce! Can you bounce your signal off a building to get around the obstacle? I'd rather do this with an antenna at both ends then put a repeater in between. It's just another point of failure. If you can't bounce then set up a passive repeater. Get two patch antennas and tie them together. Aim one at one radio and the other at the other radio. The advantage to a bounce or passive repeater besides the elemination of the middle link failure is that you preserve your bandwidth and spectrum. To repeat, you are taking over twice as long to transmit the same data. Once to receive and again to transmit at the repeater site. Or, you'd have to use 2 radios on different channels to save your bandwidth but then you have the added expense of the radio and you tie up another channel. Tron Of Borg __________________ Tron Of Borg Last edited by Tron Of Borg : 01-26-2003 at 10:35 PM.

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