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Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
#244492 - 01/25/11 03:38 AM
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Haven't played with bridges in a bit, not up to speed on the latest and greatest. Looking to bridge ~200-250ft.
I have a few directional antennas lying around (16db I believe) that I'd like to be able to use with the setup too. (sma, reverse polarity, 2.4Ghz).
What's the hot gear these days?
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Re: Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
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#244496 - 01/25/11 04:47 AM
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I used an airport relay box to extend the range of my airport extreme... works fine.
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Re: Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
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#244503 - 01/25/11 05:13 AM
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> Haven't played with bridges in a bit, not up to speed on the latest and greatest.
> Looking to bridge ~200-250ft.
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> I have a few directional antennas lying around (16db I believe) that I'd like to be
> able to use with the setup too. (sma, reverse polarity, 2.4Ghz).
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> What's the hot gear these days?
Dunno about bridges, but the Netgear WNDR3700 wireless router is awfully nice, and it has a bridge mode. Antennas are basically internal though. 
This is IMHO THE website for wireless testing: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/
Be sure to check out the charts!
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Re: Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
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#244508 - 01/25/11 05:28 AM
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> Haven't played with bridges in a bit, not up to speed on the latest and greatest.
> Looking to bridge ~200-250ft.
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> I have a few directional antennas lying around (16db I believe) that I'd like to be
> able to use with the setup too. (sma, reverse polarity, 2.4Ghz).
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> What's the hot gear these days?
I dunno if it helps for you application, but I've been using a Linksys WRT-54G as a wireless bridge for a couple of years now, running dd-wrt on it. It's been absolutely rock solid, speed is good and I've pretty much only had to reboot it to install updates. I'm only up one floor and maybe 7-8 feet over from the router, though, so I have no idea what the limit of its range is.
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Re: Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
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#244821 - 01/28/11 09:33 AM
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I'm currently using an EnGenius ECB3500 AP and a WRT54GL (w/ DD-WRT) to bridge my parent's house and my brother's house. About a 600ft span with a cluster of pine trees in between. Have a Cantenna located at my brother's house and a couple of high gain omni-directional antennas at my parent's house. The signal strength stays around 40% based on what DD-WRT is reporting.
Have had no stability problems with this setup and my nephews even play their XBox 360 over the wireless bridge.
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Re: Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
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#244832 - 01/28/11 03:06 PM
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> I'm currently using an EnGenius ECB3500 AP and a WRT54GL (w/ DD-WRT) to bridge my
> parent's house and my brother's house. About a 600ft span with a cluster of pine
> trees in between. Have a Cantenna located at my brother's house and a couple of high
> gain omni-directional antennas at my parent's house. The signal strength stays around
> 40% based on what DD-WRT is reporting.
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> Have had no stability problems with this setup and my nephews even play their XBox
> 360 over the wireless bridge.
I was ~just~ looking at an Egenius setup...They seem pretty slick, with good power output. I'm nearly sold on the EOC1650.
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Re: Anyone set up a wireless bridge lately?
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#244851 - 01/28/11 07:14 PM
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I've only read good things about the EnGenius devices, which is why I decided to go with the ECB3500. It's been awhile since I've had it, but I seem to remember that some of their devices are designed to output more power than others.
In the ECB3500 setup configuration, I can boost the output power up to 28dBm -- which is what I'm currently running it at.
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