::Hi guys,::
::My friends and I have a problem with a kind of topology for wireless
networking. For more than two weeks we are trying configuration after
configurations, changing antennas, firmware,? but nothing stable goes
out. I will try to describe what we wish to organize, hoping that
someone of you already has such experience and can help us.::
::We have an Internet service provider (ISP), which is located 2.5 km
away from my house. A friend of mine lives about 2km in another
direction from my house and another one lives at about 800m in third
direction. We thought to put an omnidirectional antenna and a WRT54GS,
configured as an access point (AP), at the roof of my house, and other
three WRT54GS but configured as clients, with directional antennas ?
at the ISP location and at roofs of my friends? houses. ::
::What we observe is that all clients connect the AP without any
problem ? we rarely have lost packets (1KB) pinging the AP or a
computer connected to its built-in switch. However, the ping form a
client to another client through the AP is horrible ? more than 70%
lost. We observed that generally the ping from the AP to any of the
clients is not OK ? it sometimes gives up to 40% lost. This situation
obviously excludes any possibility for my friends to have Internet from
that ISP. ::
::Probably if we could configure the Linksys at the ISP as an AP it
would work. However an AP does not connect to another AP. From another
hand, an AP should stay on the roof of my house. Otherwise, my friends
wouldn?t be able to connect to the ISP through it. ::
::We tried many firmware editions and router configurations but without
success. For the moment, I am the only that has Internet, having
configured my router as client and the router at the ISP location as an
AP.::
::We would appreciate any help from anyone!::
::Thanks in advance!::