Major Wifi Project, you will find it Very Interesting

You seem to be way in over your head on this. Hire a professional company that has done this before.

So, without any planning and consulting with an expert you've already started buying gear? Prepare for disappointment and wasted money.

"Really big" and "little hill" are meaningless. Use real measurements.

Let's introduce you to the evil triangle:

Good Fast Cheap

Pick two.

What you "want" versus what will function may well be completely beyond your budget.

My thoughts too. How did you decide what to buy? What's your distribution strategy - since it appears that you are already buying gear, do you know how you intend to use it?

Sounds like you did, in fact, jump the gun.

You could forget about your antennas for the moment and start at the beginning by detailing how many clients you expect to support, the lay of the land (elevation variation, distances, line of sight (or not), your internet connection, composition of any walls you want the signal to pass though and whether you are isolated in the country, in a city, etc. , ...

I'm sure I left some out, but that would be a start.

Cheers, Steve

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:47:53 GMT, DTC wrote in :

Amen.

Just to clue you in....you can have an access point at 50 feet and get good OUTSIDE signal level to a laptop 500 feet away. But step on the other side of the house and its dead.