cheap 250yd wireless link

I am looking for a quick and cheap method of linking PCs in two
buildings, over a span of about 250 yards.
I have a hand full of Linksys wireless routers (verious models) and
have been unable to locate a method of linking them wirelessly.
The two buildings have direct line of sight (with the occasional piece
of heavy equipment passing by on occasion).
The current set up has two Cat5e cables running the distance. This
settup is being removed today, due to construction on the proporty, and
will not be able to be replaced with a simular setup.

One quick and dirty idea that has come into play was to have a Linksys
router at one end, and a PC at the other building, with a wireless NIC
card and a nic connected to the building's network.

Would anyone have a better suggestions?

Mike
mlawrenc(at)gmail.com

> One quick and dirty idea that has come into play was to have a Linksys
> router at one end, and a PC at the other building, with a wireless NIC
> card and a nic connected to the building's network.

If you enable the bridging feature in XP for example, yes that should
work.

> Would anyone have a better suggestions?

Well you could always use a pair of wireless bridges! Many access
points support bridging mode, some routers too.

David.

mike wrote:

> I am looking for a quick and cheap method of linking PCs in two
> buildings, over a span of about 250 yards.
> I have a hand full of Linksys wireless routers (verious models) and
> have been unable to locate a method of linking them wirelessly.

250yds, LOS, and two WRT54G routers and you'll probably have a link without
any external antennas. Two WRT54Gs connected to external, reasonably
directional, antennas and you'll be perfect.

I have a WRT54G running Sveasoft Talisman firmware in the window of a house
1000' from mine. It's inside, with no external antenna. At my home, I
have a WRT54G running the same software, attached to a Fab-Corp 14dbi
directional antenna, pointing at the other one. Reception is
next-to-perfect. Mine runs in WDS mode (not available in the stock
firmware) - and manages to distribute the signal wirelessly in my house
from the second antenna (_don't_ count on that - I was told it wouldn't
work, and I'm not sure why it does, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the
mouth) and also distributes the signal through the wired lan.

iirc, two of the FAB antennas and 10' pigtails to connect to the rp-SMA
adapters on the WRT54G will run you around US$100, but you could be up and
running on a <54Mbps link today.
--
derek