[K12OSN] Brodcasting to Wireless 2.4 connections...

[ATM Logic]

No worries on the tower, I have all of that sorted out, and yes the radio is
at the top.. We have had a signal reach out and touch someone at about
11.4KM so far, and have a permanent link running at 10.2KM on a 900Mhz
signal.  It's the authentication part that I am looking for mostly.  I want
users to use the LTSP when they have setup an account, however have Zero use
of the signal if they have not.




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From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of ssanders at coin.org
Sent: March 19, 2006 4:15 AM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Brodcasting to Wireless 2.4 connections...

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:46 -0600, ATM Logic wrote:
> I have an Idea to use the K12LTSP in a community of about 200 or so 
> PPL that currantly have no internet.  I want to setup a K12LT and then 
> start passing out the wireless cards and CD's or even preconfigured 
> thin clients that can somehow hook to the wireless network for booting.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Booting over 802.11x can work, but probably not for 200 clients. I do this
on my home network, but it is shared bandwidth on wireless. A 100 foot tower
requires it's own set of problems to work out. You cannot run feedline/coax
on 2.4 ghz for 100+ feet without reducing the effective radiated power by a
factor of a zillion (or so). Putting the radio at the top of the tower will
reduce this problem, it's easy to run Cat5 to the radio and have a few feet
of feedline/coax.

Look around at the guys who do this type of thing for ideas:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wisp

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