Re: Infrared reciver

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>I hadn't heard of that deficiency. But the Ronja and all light beam
>systems have the same vulnerability to fog and precipitation. If I were
>going to set up a link, I would use a pair of WAPs and a pair of decent
>antennas.
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>A friend of mine has a 600 foot link that he put together with a pair of
>WAPs and the tin can antennas that can be found on the 'net. It's not
>very reliable, partly because of electrical reasons but also because the
>wind causes the antennas to not point at each other. I pointed him to
>the www.hyperlinktech.com website and told him to get rid of the
>troublesome can antennas (he doesn't know anything about RF) and buy a
>pair of decent antennas from them. But he hasn't done so yet. :-/
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>At lease he did buy some decent LMR400 coax cable.
>

I know fog/rain cause attenuation. That should not be much of a
problem for me as we only have 2 or 3 days of fog a year here. Rain
tho we get alot of (this is Oregon after all). II am in eastern so we
get 1/4 or so of the coast. Ive already got a wi-fi network inplace.
the 11mbit rf (4.5~5mb data) isnt enough (nor is the 10 or 100 we hope
to get, I will be runnign gigE in the house shortly). Ronja did give
me hope as it looks like someone in the Czech Republic has at least 30
installed links. I will be making modifacations to Ronja so that it is
simpler to build and hopefully more bandwidth. Time to read up on the
license some more.

Jeromie
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