[plug] OT: Point to multipoint wireless

[Kai Jones]

Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 18:04, Kai Jones wrote:
> 
>>Onno, what type of cable 
>>do you from your AP to antenna ? some sort of coax (RG-213, Belon ?) 
>>with an SMA connector on it, or something similar ?
> 
> 
> Yup, the short one that came with the antenna (I think - there was a lot
> of spending going on at the time, might have had to pay extra there for
> an other item...)
> 
> Description, white coax, about 20 cm long, tiny gold plated connector on
> one end - apparently it's not a standard connector in the 802.11 world -
> but that's DLink for you - the other end is a big - around an inch or so
> - connector, also gold plated, both screw onto their respective
> terminals.
> 
> The lightning protection unit I have is basically a block of metal with
> a ground lead connector on the side. It features a male and female
> connector (of the inch variety) that bolts directly onto the antenna and
> on to the the cable at the other end.
> 
> A star-picket banged into the ground with some water helping and a thick
> ground cable as my earth. (Truth be told, I've never actually used the
> lightning protection, but then I've also never put my dish up high :-)
> 
> 
> Onno Benschop 

Our normal supplier hasn't got back to me but PLE did and here's their 
pricing (I'm posting to the group in case it's usefull for anyone else' 
reference):

DWL-905+   D-Link AirPlus 22 Mbps Wireless
D-Link AirPlus 22 Mbps Wireless LAN Starter Ki
2 x Wireless LAN PCMCIA Cards (DWL-650+)
1 x Wireless LAN Access Point (DWL-900AP+)
$279.00 Inc GST

DWL-900AP+   AirPlus 22Mb W/less LAN Aces Point Alone
$165.00 Inc GST

ANT24-1500    D-Link Outdoor 15dBi Gain Omni-
Directional Antenna
$372.00 Inc GST

ANT24-1801   D-Link Air Outdoor 18dBi High
Gain Directional Yagi Antenna
$399.00 Inc GST

NetGear FS608 8-PORT 10/100 SWITCH  $88.00 Inc GST

....the DWL-650+ doesn't have any Linux drivers though :S anyone know 
any PCMCIA wireless cards that work with Linux ? according to 
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 no D-Link products work.