Engenius 200mW long range Wi-Fi equipment

If you are looking for the longest range 802.11 equipment on the
market you should check out the engenius 200mW gear here

Don't bother with hyped up fads like 802.11n its just the low quality
consumer gear makers attempt at getting in another product cycle.

Also it is also better to use a low end wired router with a good
access point than a all in one device. You can place the ap in a good
location away from cables and computers to give the longest range.

For longest range stick with 200mW 802.11b gear with a high receive
sensitivity.


There is a 200mW card with external antenna connector 2511cd plus ext2

and 200mW access point / client bridges 2611cb3 3054cb3


http://www.keenansystems.com/store/c...lt.php?cPath=2

Hi, Jeff,

I have two of your 2611CB3 Deluxe which are giving me fits. Obviously I'm
doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is. Recommendations here
(this forum) seem only to add more gear, when these two, by themselves, when
connected, are in fibrillation.

I'd love to go offline with you on this, but for a quickie summary, see
"cutting the wire on a sailboat" for a review of my challenges.

What would you suggest? Looking at your 3054 manual suggests it's virtually
alike except only 100mw, and nothing in the literature I see shows how to
use it as a repeater.

I think what I need is a repeater, but thus far, I'm clueless, it seems.

Thanks.

L8R

Skip

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"jeff keenan" <keenan.jeff@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> If you are looking for the longest range 802.11 equipment on the
> market you should check out the engenius 200mW gear here
>
> Don't bother with hyped up fads like 802.11n its just the low quality
> consumer gear makers attempt at getting in another product cycle.
>
> Also it is also better to use a low end wired router with a good
> access point than a all in one device. You can place the ap in a good
> location away from cables and computers to give the longest range.
>
> For longest range stick with 200mW 802.11b gear with a high receive
> sensitivity.
>
>
> There is a 200mW card with external antenna connector 2511cd plus ext2
>
> and 200mW access point / client bridges 2611cb3 3054cb3
>
>
> http://www.keenansystems.com/store/c...lt.php?cPath=2
>
>
>

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:21:16 -0400, "Skip Gundlach" <skipgundlach at
gmail dotcom> wrote:

>Hi, Jeff,
>
>I have two of your 2611CB3 Deluxe which are giving me fits. Obviously I'm
>doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is. Recommendations here
>(this forum) seem only to add more gear, when these two, by themselves, when
>connected, are in fibrillation.
>
>I'd love to go offline with you on this, but for a quickie summary, see
>"cutting the wire on a sailboat" for a review of my challenges.
>
>What would you suggest? Looking at your 3054 manual suggests it's virtually
>alike except only 100mw, and nothing in the literature I see shows how to
>use it as a repeater.
>
>I think what I need is a repeater, but thus far, I'm clueless, it seems.
>
>Thanks.
>
>L8R
>
>Skip
you do not need a repeater that would not work.

yes you can use one cb3
http://www.keenansystems.com/store/c...&products_id=8
as the bridge and connect to another cb3 in access point mode via a
crossover cable. They must be on non over lapping channels (1,6 or 11)
so if the boat bridge is connected to a channel 1 access point your
boat access point should be on channel 11.

You will have to set your boat access point and bridge to different ip
address of course use 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 most default access point
will be in the 192.168 range you can also add a secondary ip address
like 10.0.0.100 on your computers ethernet card for management of the
cb3's click advanced on tcp/ip and add it there. Set normal ip address
to dhcp so it picks up from the land based access point.

This all requires basic tcp/ip networking skills might be worth your
wile to pick up the crab book
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp2/index.html
so you can understand what you are trying to do

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> There is a 200mW card with external antenna connector 2511cd plus ext2

I junked one of these last year. Lousy XP drivers hosed the WiFi "stack" on
what had been a perfectly working Dell laptop.

"Paul" <paule-nospam@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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|
| > There is a 200mW card with external antenna connector 2511cd plus ext2
|
| I junked one of these last year. Lousy XP drivers hosed the WiFi "stack"
on
| what had been a perfectly working Dell laptop.

Care to make a donation (with receipt for taxes) to a non profit?

back channel me via brother_rabbit @ hotmail.com and I'll send you the url
on the group and what they are about.

An aside we'll take anything working or not if there is a chance we can get
it working or steal parts to make another something work. If nothing else
we'll use it to teach someone how to solder and assemble electronics PCBs.

BR

"jeff keenan" <keenan.jeff@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1lrjl19jiiulrln0utdjk0kenj2d634iku@4ax.com...
(me, in a prior post)
>>I think what I need is a repeater, but thus far, I'm clueless, it seems.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>L8R
>>
>>Skip
> you do not need a repeater that would not work.
>
> yes you can use one cb3
> http://www.keenansystems.com/store/c...&products_id=8
> as the bridge and connect to another cb3 in access point mode via a
> crossover cable. They must be on non over lapping channels (1,6 or 11)
> so if the boat bridge is connected to a channel 1 access point your
> boat access point should be on channel 11.
>
> You will have to set your boat access point and bridge to different ip
> address of course use 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 most default access point
> will be in the 192.168 range you can also add a secondary ip address
> like 10.0.0.100 on your computers ethernet card for management of the
> cb3's click advanced on tcp/ip and add it there. Set normal ip address
> to dhcp so it picks up from the land based access point.
>

Thank you, Jeff, for an informed opinion. I'm not at the same site as the
equipment (it's in the storage building where the other stuff going to the
boat is at the moment). So, particularly since this week is chock-a-block
with medical stuff related to my ability to leave, it will have to wait
until next week. However...

I'll try setting one of the units to CH1, the other to 11, both of them on
the 10 set net, and adding another custom net of the 10 class to my DHCP
enabled wifi internal.

Of course, I'd far rather make what I have, having already spent the bux
toget them, work, so this is encouraging. In particular, with two 200mw
units, one for each end's activity, it surely seems that I'll have great
coverage. However, I'm curious as to why a repeater wouldn't work - or,
were you referring to *adding* a repeater to what I have as not working?

Finally, as originally configured, these were two modules (no cases, but the
breadboard allowing the PCMCIA card to operate outside the computer),
separated by standoffs, in the same weatherproof housing, with the 20" stick
out the top on a lightning arrestor/protector and the duck out the bottom,
both powered by house (12V DC, nominal) power. Do you see any problems with
this arrangement?

I'll report back when I've attempted your setup.

Thanks again.

L8R

Skip

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:21:16 -0400, "Skip Gundlach" <skipgundlach at
> gmail dotcom> wrote:
>
>>Hi, Jeff,
>>
>>I have two of your 2611CB3 Deluxe which are giving me fits. Obviously I'm
>>doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is. Recommendations here
>>(this forum) seem only to add more gear, when these two, by themselves,
>>when
>>connected, are in fibrillation.
>>
>>I'd love to go offline with you on this, but for a quickie summary, see
>>"cutting the wire on a sailboat" for a review of my challenges.
>>
>>What would you suggest? Looking at your 3054 manual suggests it's
>>virtually
>>alike except only 100mw, and nothing in the literature I see shows how to
>>use it as a repeater.
>>

> This all requires basic tcp/ip networking skills might be worth your
> wile to pick up the crab book
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp2/index.html
> so you can understand what you are trying to do