Critique my RAN (rural area network)
I have an off-grid home. My closest neighbor and I use two-way satellite (DirecWay). Now we have a third neighbor moving in who was talking about getting the satellite connection. I said that was nuts :-)
Another neighbor, just about exactly 1km away over open water (foggy at least 60 days a year, if that matters) has cable access. While she can't legally share that, I have no problem paying the cable company for a business connection which we _can_ legally share.
I want to set up an access point where the cable connection is, with a directional antenna to us. The three houses are within 15 degrees from that point. Then, at each "client" house, I want to put a directional antenna pointing back to the base, connected to a repeater, so that the computers in the client houses have wireless access via the repeater.
The real problem is that I'm confused by much of the terminology used and I'm not sure what I'm really looking for. Using D-Link as an example, just because it was easy to find, not because I know enough to want to buy them :-), it would seem I should be able to use:
- DI-524/624 at the base station, connected to the Cable and external antenna
- either a DWLG710 range extender or a DWL-G700AP as a repeater. Seems like they'd both work, but the AP has more capabilities and costs less!
Am I on the right track? And is that fog going to be a problem?
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Derek Broughton in Wireless Networking
