Re: Using a DirectTV antenna for a WiFi link?

Todd Boyle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.seattle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
These USB adapters with parabolic dish seem easier to me,
http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

TOdd

At 09:44 AM 12/29/2004, crispin wrote:
>         Using a setup like this about what kind of shape coverage you 
> might get, anyone have an idea?  Would it be more or less directional 
> than a waveguide "cantenna" alone?
>
>
>On Dec 23, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Matt Westervelt wrote:
>
>><http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html>http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html 
>>
>>
>>Cheers.
>>-matt
>>
>>On Dec 23, 2004, at 12:27 PM, Dennis wrote:
>>
>>>All,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to establish an 802.11b WiFi link from my house to a friends 
>>>house about 1300 feet away.  There are a number of trees between 
>>>us.   Last winter, I made two cantennas and with them we were able to 
>>>get 3 bars out of 5 but later, when the trees filled in in the spring, 
>>>the signal dropped too low to be viable.
>>>
>>>I've read that someone used a TV dish antenna - it was a DirectTV 
>>>antenna or something similar



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