Outdoor wireless bridge between two buildings

A Linksys WRT54G and WAP54G under white five gallon paint buckets would be a darn tad cheaper and just as effective over 1,500 ft. *LOS* - even when simply mounted on a twelve foot roof. You could even do a poor man's POE by splicing the unused ethernet pairs to the walwart.

Yes, indeed ... ;) - I use the wap54g's as our general access points which have proved effective.

Although this has to be done at least to some sort of standard as its for a national company that is heavily concerned with safety, procedures & red tape.

Also, budget is highly flexible - as in, get it done & providing it works it will be a better solution than the adsl line they were originally going to put in and vpn through to the file server, way too slow.

I'll probably be putting in a ups on each end for the poe too, either that or use the flexible budget to get our first poe switches which are hooked up to psu's on the server room side anyway.

Then have a licensed electrician run conduit to where you need the AP mounted. Have him install one of those big grey outdoor rated electrical boxes.

a couple of Cisco boxes

Thats not needed with the outdoor ip66 rated ap's with built in power over ethernet.

It will be an electrician doing the cabling using external grade cat5e but no need for additional power feed when you can just run the one cable which covers it all.