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Wireless Access Point



>Hello,
>   I may need a wireless access point that can give coverage over 1km
>(3280
>feet) in a field.  Does this seem reasonable, or would it be more
>appropriate to string a few together?  If this does seem reasonable can
>anyone recommend a WAP that will perform at these distances?
>

Is the goal to cover the field, or cross the field?

I would turn to the folks at War Driving World (wardrivingworld.com) and/or
Netgate (netgate.com) for advice.  Both are helpful and informed.  If you
have line-of-sight and don't need high bandwidth, you may get away with some
off the shelf high power (300~400mW) cards and big external antennas.

Sounds interesting.

Jack Daniel

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