[MLB-WIRELESS] Passive repeater

[sanbar]

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 10:39, Ben Holko wrote:
> hey all,
> 
> ha anyone had any experience with a passive 802.11b repeater setup?
> 

Yep

> something like:
> 
> wired lan <--> antenna <--> 802.11b(20km's) <--> antenna <--> coax <-->
> antenna <--> 802.11b(200m's) <--> antenna <--> coax <--> wired lan
> 

Yep, but sub 20km with 50m

> basically I need to send a link over a long distance (~20km's), then bounce
> it (~200m's) to maintain LOS. I dont really want to put a wlan device(s) in
> the middle. I'm thinking galaxy antennas for long range, then bouncing the
> rest of the way using cantennas or something.
> 
> Is this possible? I seem to remember something about losing 50% of signal by
> passively bouncing like this?
> 

Yep, over 50m it lost half the signal. Granted this was a setup using
two ~12dBi cantennas connected with 2m of LMR-400. But it did bend the
signal 90 degrees.

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