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WAN

on Jun.19, 2005, under Networking

I’ve added the first WAN link to the thtech network: 802.11g to Chris‘s house. We used garden hose as conduit for about 250’ of CAT5e from my shed to the WAP. The WAP was mounted on a pole inside of a tupperware container. Ethernet handled the distance fine, but a trivial POE implementation arrived at by splicing the power adapter that came with the WAP into the CAT5 didn’t work. There was too much resistance on the line for the 5v power to overcome. So, we tried stepping up to 12v with a DC-DC converter on the other end. This would result in the WAP partially powering up, but continually rebooting. I figured that this was due to the WAP drawing too much power when it tried to power up the radio. I purchased a higher capacity DC-DC converter at WalMart, and all has been well. We’re currently getting 600 KB/s, but earlier tests had us at about 1.1MB/s. We’ll have to do some antenna tweaking to try to remedy that.


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