Where is a good place to order Buffalo wireless equipment? How
important is line-of-sight? Would it be reasonable to get a good
connection across 270 feet (~82m) from inside one house to inside
another, with trees and fences in the way? Two of the homes are 5.5
lots apart (across the backyard - no lane - and down five houses). I'd
rather get a better connection and not blanket the neighbourhood with
our signal if possible, which is why I'm wondering about a directional
antenna.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net><br>Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 22:59<br>Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Point to point wireless<br>To: Kevin McGregor <kmcgregor@shaw.ca><br>Cc: roundtable@muug.mb.ca<br><br>> Kevin McGregor wrote:<br>> > Does anyone have some pointers (personal experiences, URLs, etc) on <br>> > how to set up a point to point (house to house) wireless network? I <br>> > and two geeky neighbours are thinking about setting up a private <br>> > internal network to connect our houses, and we're not sure where to start.<br>> The standard Linksys router (WRT54G-style) won't be a great choice, for <br>> the main reason that someone else here has mentioned: crappy radios.<br>> However, Buffalo seems to have mitigated most of the problems with the <br>> broadcom radio - we replaced all the WRT54Gs at work with Buffalo <br>> WHR-54s (or something like that - check out the chart at <br>> http://www.dd-wrt.com/) and instantly got easily double to triple the <br>> range of the Linksys units, despite being based on the same reference <br>> design.<br>> <br>> I would suggest buying three Buffalos (cheaper than the Linksys, by <br>> mail-order only - no-one in the city seems to carry them), loading <br>> either OpenWRT or DD-WRT on them [I prefer DD-WRT, it seems more <br>> integrated], using the factory-default antennas, and EITHER putting them <br>> all in ad-hoc mode, or putting one of them (the geographically central <br>> one) in AP mode and the other two in client mode.<br>> <br>> I would also strongly recommend you NOT put them in bridge mode, rather <br>> use them as proper routers - no need for NAT, specifically, but you <br>> really really really don't want all your broadcast and/or multicast <br>> traffic flooding the wireless side of things.<br>> <br>> -Adam<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Roundtable mailing list<br>> Roundtable@muug.mb.ca<br>> http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable<br>>