Did i use stronge equipments ?

[leon_the_pro]

hi there , its has been a long time since i wrote and iam happy to be back and wirte this to u guys . 2 days back i have connected two house together which were 2.5km away from each other and i used certain equipments and i wanted to know if these equipments were the right ones or its was way too strong ones . here r the equipemts i used.

1- Micronet antenna 24dbi X 2
http://www.micronet.info/Products/wireless/SP920PA-24.asp
2- Micronet 108MB Accesspoint http://www.micronet.info/Products/wireless/SP918GL.asp
3- Adsl router http://www.micronet.info/Products/adsl/SP3354.asp
4- utp cat 5 for cabling
http://www.micronet.info/Products/wiring/Cable.asp
5- coaxial antenna cables
http://www.micronet.info/Products/wireless/C920_Cable.asp

And the two access point were kept in point to point mode and its working fine , with 100 % signal strenght . But was there a better way of doing this ????

 

[palmerg]

If its working and you have already purchased it all I guess it dosen't matter if there is a better way. Since you get 100% sig that's even more reason to be happy.
Only concern I can think of is the type of antenna. Don't know the Micronet specs but if it's a yagi shotgun type that you had to focus and required line of sight that is the better setup. If it's a spread spectrum omni directional signal then the chances of it being broadcast and possibly picked up and used by others is greater.
You really won't know unless you monitor transmissions on both ends because the signal strength won't change if its being used by campers.
In other words you may become an ISP and not even know it. But that is not 100% garrented its only a possibility. So sould you be concerned? Probably not.



I am officially <i>addicted</i>

 

[kwebb]

The term spread spectrum has nothing to do with antennas. Its the technology your using to push out the antenna. In this case, 802.11x

As far as a better way to do it, the only thing I would have done differently is use MUCH less gain on your directionals. That is way overkill for a link that long. You could have gone with 7-9 dBi yagis with line of sight and a short coaxial run. But if it's working for you and you have a solid link then you did good and I wouldn't worry about it. Security is a non issue as well though since your in point to point bridge mode. I'd still encrypt but with a true point to point anyone wanting to knockout the child or parent bridge would have to go to extremely long lenghts to do so and frankly it just wouldn't be worth it. Rest easy.

 

[palmerg]

You're right, my error.
Oh, I am resting easy thanks.

I am officially <i>addicted</i>

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Like what was said above - I hope you encrypt your signal WPA style.

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Bow Down (and pray to your God)

 

[riser]

I'm going to assume you're out in the country since you have this setup.

That's pretty cool what you did.. I haven't bothered looking at the specs, but how much time/money did you spend to do this, get it up and running, etc?

I just wonder because I've been looking at picking up fiber optics equipment so I can run my own fiber where ever and for side jobs.
If I could do a wireless signal, that'd probably work in most cases, but probably not practical if it takes that much time to get set up as a one man job.

 

[leon_the_pro]

well thanks guys for your opinions . to be exact the quipments costed me around 570 US$ , and it took me around one day to finish this network and everything is running smoothly with 100% link 😀 . now iam thinking of making a network between two location which is around 50KM apart from each other . Any recommendations ??/

 

[kwebb]

50KM is what 30 miles? Bring your checkbook. Towers can get expensive and unless one side of the link is on a mountain or something both sides would likely have very tall towers. If both were at sea level you'd be looking at well over 100 feet on each side. perhaps close to 200. I haven't done a path analysis or used a link calculator in so long it would only be speculation, especially without knowing the topo of the link space. You'd be looking at something besides 802.11 gear as well. 5.8 Ghz. something like Proxim Tsunami bridges. Maybe Wi-Lan. big hitters if you want to do a link that long. now if my metric conversion is off then simply disregard everything I just said.