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Are there any WEATHERPROOF Wi-Fi equipment makers?

mcveigh

mcveigh

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I am looking at insttall a WAP on the ouside of a house about 15Ft from seawater. I live in Florida and have seen the corrosion salt air can put on electronic equipment.

I am wondering if there are any "off the shelf" components I couls use. If not, I'm thinking of mounting this to a wall or ceiling and putting a plastic shield around it. Are there any materials that are better at letting radio signals through?
 
As long as its not metal don't worry about the signal getting through.

Go to your nearest electrical supply store and get a nema box that will hold the equipment, then you can mount what you want outside and not worry about. My advice though would be to spend the extra money on the appropriate length and size of lmr cable and run the radio inside. Its alot easier to reset it if you don't have to climb a tower. Be sure to read up on how to properly weatherproof antenna connections. If you need cable I recommend fab-corp, they'll sell custom cut and terminated lengths if you need.
 
at work we built ruggedized enclosures for cisco equipment all the time for the navy. you can get a cheap nema12 enclosure and mount the WAP inisde of that.
 
Thanks for the info, N4S, I may do a POE WAP like your other post and put that inside am enclosure.
 
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