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Wireless link frequency choice (900Mhz vs 5.8Ghz) for 2-3km distance

I have recently been contracted by a client of mine to facilitate the wireless communication of his "home" offices and a secondary site. The primary site is the top two floors of a 5-story office building (15m height more or less) an the secondary…
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throughput drops near zero using directional radio relay

We are using the following 1Gbit/s radio link setup: Location A: internet gateway with 1Gbits/s sym. fiber most of our servers including dhcp, dns, fileservers (smb), voip-server, exchange-server 55 clients/users directional radio relay A…
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wireless between 2 buildings

I am setting up a wireless LAN between two buildings -- one with Internet and one without. The distance between the buildings is about 900 feet. This goes across a 4 lane street and up/down a hill. It is line-of-sight with a few trees. I don't…
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How strict is line of sight?

The college where I work is wanting to expand our network connection out to the field house building, located about 1/2 to 3/4 mile away from the rest of campus. I'm looking at one of these as a possible…
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Same or separate subnets when connecting two buildings via a wireless bridge

We have two buildings about 200 feet apart connected via SMC's outdoor wireless bridge. Currently, both buildings are on the same subnet with one DHCP server in the main building. This seemed to be the easiest way to setup our network so that…
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Need to "extend" wireless signal to conference room

We have a network set up using an ASUS RT-N66U for our office with the following configuration: Private SSID (one for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) Guest SSID (one for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) Unfortunately, we've had some signal problems (the spectrum is fairly…
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Continuous Bandwidth / Throughput Meter

I am building a wireless link between two points using Wireless-N standard. To determine the best position of the antennas, there is a signal strength indicator on the antennas. The problem is the link strength doesn't always correspond to link…
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openwrt uses a single interface bridge?

My understanding of bridging is that it ties together two interfaces at layer 2. I am looking at a Ubiquiti Nanostation2 running OpenWRT that has an ethernet port 'eth0' and a wifi port 'ath0'. The ethernet port (the 'wan' port) is not part of the…
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Linux Ethernet/wireless bridging

One of our new requirements for a product I work on is to support Ethernet-to-wireless bridging. Suppose we have two network interfaces: eth0 and ath0 (we're using the Madwifi driver). What sort of options do I have to allow computers hooked into…
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What is the fastest way to connect two separate networks within two separate buildings?

We have two buildings that are across the street from each other. Each has their own separate network. We needed to connect them together using a fast connection because of the large number of files that are copied between the networks on a daily…
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Bridge networks via Wi-FI

I've bridged networks before using wired bridges but just want to check that this is also possible via Wi-Fi. In the attached diagram on the left there is the pretty common laptop connected via Wi-Fi to a Wireless router which is then plugged into…
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Use Access Point to extend network to remote computer without a wireless card

I am trying to set up a computer on a rolling cart so it can be move around the office to be wireless without actually having a wireless card in it. So I need to go from NIC to ethernet cable to wireless but have it so no network settings need to be…
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Bridging eth0 to wlan0

I'm trying to create the followig setup: +----------+ | Wi-Fi | +----------+ ^ …
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Accessing WRT54G admin through WET610N bridge

I am using a WRT54G router to host a few computers and servers. I have another computer that is wired to a wireless bridge, which is a WET610N. How do I access the admin page of my WRT54G through my bridge? "http://192.168.1.1/" gives no…
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Sharing Internet connection between people in apartment blocks

I am currently trying to choose hardware for two projects. The first project: there is a five-storey apartment block, which receives Internet connection through Wi-Fi. It is planned to place a grid antenna on the roof. The place from where Internet…
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