Hey, Dan - A friend of mine recently told me about this product, and LOVES it: "10X better wifi range" See if this'll do the trick: http://betterwifirange.com/ Jill Connolly 617.921.JILL HELPING YOUR ORGANIZATION FIND ITS VOICE! THE VOICE of powerful communications in New Media, Tech, Education, the Arts and Our Environment. Hear all about it at: http://www.jillconnolly.com My LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jillconnolly On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Dan Nachbar wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I have an "off the grid" wifi application (it's for > realtime data collection) where conventional wifi > doesn't have quite enough range. > > I need about 700 feet, outdoors, generally unobstructed, > and line of sight. There are four data collection locations. > Each data location needs to connect to a central location. > All of the data locations are within about 180 > degrees of azimuth with respect to the central location. > I don't have the option of putting repeaters between the > central location and the data points. > > I've tried several amps and antennae from several different > web stores but they don't seem to do much better than > the little "rubber duck" antennae on the usual boxes. > > In contrast, I've had good luck with some 1-watt mesh-y > units (i.e. Ayrston's Ayrmesh boxes - > http://www.ayrstone.com/products.html ) > But these units always need to "contact the mother ship" > at boot-time. So "off the grid" doesn't work. > > Anybody have a good source for higher powered wifi units? > I'd like to get away from Ayrmesh if general. They are > pricey and I hate having to rely on their website in order > to boot. > > Alternatively, it is possible that I'm botching the set-up > of the amps/antennae that I already have. Is there a good > resource (website?, book?, person?) on the process and pitfalls > of this sort of thing somewhere? > > Thanks in advance, > Dan Nachbar > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20110706/5d11c493/attachment-0001.html