[MLB-WIRELESS] Micro$oft working on software radios (!)

[Will Lanigan]

yeah this is with the $50 card, BUT a card is next to useless unless you
attach an external antenna of some sort, the can acts as an antenna.
so yes, the $50 enterasys cards are damned fine for any wireless networking,
you just need a good antenna (as you do with ANY card)

i am unsure what the cards by themselves will cover but it would be around
the 300-350m mark i think
but for the love of god just make yourself a can or buy one of someone (i
will sell them for bugger all at next meet i think).

and its hard to make a map showing a blanket of coverage because of
buildings and trees obstructing views.
yes we can make a theoretical one that doesnt take into consideration
buildings and trees, but what good is that to anyone?
i will be taking GPS waypoints at some nodes in my area and working out the
exact bearings and degrees they have LOS of and then shading in the areas of
LOS on my map of the area. the reason for doing this is because there are
approx. 8 people within range of a central point in my area, hopefully we
can all connect, these basic LOS mappings will allow us to work out some
inital things.

----- Original Message -----
From: "dwayne" <dwayne at pobox.com>
To: "melbourne wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Micro$oft working on software radios (!)


> Will Lanigan wrote:
> >
> > i will be doing a 7.5, 10, and 13km link in a couple of weeks (depending
on
> > visibility of location i should be able to run all these tests)
> > I feel confident in saying that a cantenna will be able to pull 13km
>
>
> This is with those $50 enterasys cards, yes?
>
> just confirming, as this is *way* better than I'd expected.
>
> I bought one of those cards as a cheap entry into wireless networking,
it'll
> just boggle my mind if this card is sufficient for my needs.
>
> Card is what i'm interested in, not antenna.
>
> Well, card/antenna/cable combo, but the card is what I'm asking about as
> that's what I've got., and that's what I expected *might* do 500 m.
>
> This is cool.
>
> Is there any way we could build a coverage map? ie: we have something
> somewhere which places nodes on a  map and draws a circle around scaled to
the
> range we'd expect from the gear they have.
>
> It'd be interesting to see when we have (theoretical) blanket coverage of
> Melbourne.
> If that has not already occurred.
>
>
> Dwayne
>
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