Wireless Networking Stuff
Sunday, July 18 2010 @ 06:06 PM CDT Views: 25
I've been playing around with some wireless networking stuff lately. Small projects and digging through my collection of gear.
I added an external RP-SMA port to my netbook, bought a pigtail from Jefa Tech and mounted the jack where the Kensington lock would go. Took a bit of work and some dremelling, but it works and doesn't look too bad. I also put a new pigtail on my old 2.4ghz omni antenna with an RP-SMA instead of the goofy connector I used to use with the Orinoco card. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to make any difference to the signal received, I'm not sure why. I suppose I'll have to test range, though it definitely doesn't see any more APs around here (of which there are a lot). The antenna on my old setup had rather amazing range, I recall seeing a signal 5 miles away once.
I've also been playing with the pair of RouterBOARD 411 wireless setups I have. They're long range point to point rigs with high gain panel antennas, out door enclosures and mounts, POE, the whole 9 yards. Pretty nice gear but I don't really have a use for them. They don't have the license to be an AP so I can't use them for that, though the level 4 license is pretty cheap I'll probably just leave them as-is. I did upgrade them to the RouterOS 4.10 and reset them to default config so they're ready to go if I find a use for them.
I added an external RP-SMA port to my netbook, bought a pigtail from Jefa Tech and mounted the jack where the Kensington lock would go. Took a bit of work and some dremelling, but it works and doesn't look too bad. I also put a new pigtail on my old 2.4ghz omni antenna with an RP-SMA instead of the goofy connector I used to use with the Orinoco card. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to make any difference to the signal received, I'm not sure why. I suppose I'll have to test range, though it definitely doesn't see any more APs around here (of which there are a lot). The antenna on my old setup had rather amazing range, I recall seeing a signal 5 miles away once.
I've also been playing with the pair of RouterBOARD 411 wireless setups I have. They're long range point to point rigs with high gain panel antennas, out door enclosures and mounts, POE, the whole 9 yards. Pretty nice gear but I don't really have a use for them. They don't have the license to be an AP so I can't use them for that, though the level 4 license is pretty cheap I'll probably just leave them as-is. I did upgrade them to the RouterOS 4.10 and reset them to default config so they're ready to go if I find a use for them.
