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 &lt;athompso@athompso.net&gt;<br>
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 22:59<br>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Point to point wireless<br>
To: Kevin McGregor &lt;kmcgregor@shaw.ca&gt;<br>
Cc: roundtable@muug.mb.ca<br>
<br>
&gt; Kevin McGregor wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; Does anyone have some pointers (personal experiences, URLs, etc) on <br>
&gt; &gt; how to set up a point to point (house to house) wireless network? I <br>
&gt; &gt; and two geeky neighbours are thinking about setting up a private <br>
&gt; &gt; internal network to connect our houses, and we're not sure where to start.<br>
&gt; The standard Linksys router (WRT54G-style) won't be a great choice, for <br>
&gt; the main reason that someone else here has mentioned: crappy radios.<br>
&gt; However, Buffalo seems to have mitigated most of the problems with the <br>
&gt; broadcom radio - we replaced all the WRT54Gs at work with Buffalo <br>
&gt; WHR-54s (or something like that - check out the chart at <br>
&gt; http://www.dd-wrt.com/) and instantly got easily double to triple the <br>
&gt; range of the Linksys units, despite being based on the same reference <br>
&gt; design.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I would suggest buying three Buffalos (cheaper than the Linksys, by <br>
&gt; mail-order only - no-one in the city seems to carry them), loading <br>
&gt; either OpenWRT or DD-WRT on them [I prefer DD-WRT, it seems more <br>
&gt; integrated], using the factory-default antennas, and EITHER putting them <br>
&gt; all in ad-hoc mode, or putting one of them (the geographically central <br>
&gt; one) in AP mode and the other two in client mode.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I would also strongly recommend you NOT put them in bridge mode, rather <br>
&gt; use them as proper routers - no need for NAT, specifically, but you <br>
&gt; really really really don't want all your broadcast and/or multicast <br>
&gt; traffic flooding the wireless side of things.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; -Adam<br>
&gt; <br>
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