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Adding wireless to remote location

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2canSAM

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I am looking at "extending" a wireless signal to a remote location. There are actually 3 buildings involved in a row in a span of 400 yards. Building #1 currently has wifi and when standing outside of building 2 I can pick up a pretty decent signal. What I want to do it have wireless in building 2 and building 3 and was looking at 3 of the repeater/access points listed below. I have messed with WDS in a very limited capacity using some tomato flashed linksys boxes with good results.

http://www.radiolabs.com/products/wireless/networking/high-power-access-point.php
 
Not to state the obvious here, but if it's at all possible, you will definitely want to link these buildings with a hard line then run wifi access points off that line as needed.

Failing that, you can try using repeaters (will typically have issues propagating beyond one repeater) or amplifiers (separate amp and line-of-sight with directional yagi antennas for each additional AP).

Others may have some better suggestions than I in this area. Good luck!
 
gsaldivar said:
Not to state the obvious here, but if it's at all possible, you will definitely want to link these buildings with a hard line then run wifi access points off that line as needed.

Failing that, you can try using repeaters (will typically have issues propagating beyond one repeater) or amplifiers (separate amp and line-of-sight with directional yagi antennas for each additional AP).

Others may have some better suggestions than I in this area. Good luck!
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Thanks for the feedback. I would love to wire them and use AP in each building but do not have any conduit running between them.
 
What are you using the network for?

Personally, I'd try to get some kind of fiber between the buildings. Buried in a conduit preferably. I don't know if fiber can be run overhead.

If all the building are in a line, can you use two WAPs inside the middle building? I would connect those two with Cat5e and then use directional antennas in between the structures.

--- wire
*** wireless
#1 WAP-Dir_Ant ****** Dir_Ant-WAP---Cat5e---WAP-Dir_ant******Dir_ant-WAP
 
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