[ale] OT: Wireless Questions

[ctcrreho at opm.gov (Hogg, Russell E)]

http://www.adversarialsciencelab.net/newindex.html



Thats their site.?? If you scour the web a little you can find far better articles about the shootout in other places though.

I know techTV has an article somewhere.


Russ





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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Fowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:38 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Wireless Questions


Do you have a direclt link to that ant.???? Their flash intro is
not allowing me to view their site. I'm guessig it is flash.?? All
I see is a big white square with a black background.?? Of course I run Linux too.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:30:58PM -0400, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> 
>?????? FWIW?? trees are really nasty dealing with anything 2.4G because that's
>?????? the?? resonating?? frequency?? of?? water.???? Your?? microwave works on this
>?????? principle.
> 
>?????? If?? linksys?? says?? 3?? miles?? then?? expect?? 2/3?? of that in the Georgia
>?????? humidity?? and line of sight.?? I will point out that I've gotten half a
>?????? mile?? out of a plain old omni directional antenna that was placed high
>?????? enough up though.
> 
>?????? Linksys?? makes?? a?? consumer level amp that you might try to although I
>?????? think I heard that it sucked.
> 
>?????? Maybe?? consider?? building?? a?? 4?? dollar?? "can-tenna"?? yourself?? before
>?????? investing?? in?? high?? dollar?? hardware.?? If you're really serious, some
>?????? folks?? out?? at?? either?? black?? hat or defcon built a horn out of a 100
>?????? worth?? of?? stuff?? at home depot and got 35 miles out of the thing a .8
>?????? watts.
> 
>?????? Their site here: [1]http://www.adversarialsciencelab.net
> 
>?????? I?? betcha?? that's?? less?? than?? you paid for that YAGI.?? And yes a good
>?????? antenna at both ends is definitely an aid.
> 
>?????? Seems there are quite a few sharp wireless people on the list.
>?????? Those are just
>?????? My 2 cents
> 
>?????? Russ
> 
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>?????? -----Original Message-----
>?????? From: Tim LaCroix [[2]mailto:cheese4all at yahoo.com]
>?????? Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:20 PM
>?????? To: ale at ale.org
>?????? Subject: [ale] OT: Wireless Questions
> 
>?????? Hey all, I ran into something I can't fix, thought
>?????? someone here may know.
> 
>?????? I got a D-Link 614+ and a Yagi D-Link ANT24-1801 and I
>?????? am trying to go a half mile to a computer sitting with
>?????? a Belkin 802.11b USB nic. I called up D-Link and they
>?????? just said that a professional wireless installer must
>?????? install it. I asked if there were any in Savannah, he
>?????? couldn't say. But regardless, I am merely attempting
>?????? to go 1/2 mile through trees, houses and people to
>?????? reach a nic sitting in an office. The thing has a 15
>?????? degree beam. The Yagi boasts a 3 mile range, but
>?????? looking at some cisco texts on their equivalent it
>?????? seems that 2 concrete walls are enough to stop the
>?????? connection. Is it wise to get another antenna or a nic
>?????? with an antenna like the DWL-AG520 for the recieving
>?????? end? Or is the only option to site this thing out with
>?????? a laser going 3 stories up and aiming it to be within
>?????? inches. Any assistance or advice would be great.
> 
>?????? Thanks.
>?????? Tim LaCroix
>?????? CCNA (general all around "fix the computer thing" guy)
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