On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to Alex Barclay:
> >
> >I live about 3 miles from my office on line of sight. So I'm
> >constructing a radio link in one of the Ham microwave bands that will
> >give me a high speed link. Having done the link budget I think that I
> >can easily get 2MBit without breaking the bank on RF devices, or
> >completely filling the Ham band that I choose (1300MHz is currently a
> >good choice)
> >
> 
> Hmmm it sounds like you are having heaps of fun BUT did you consider
> getting some wavelan cards?  I _thought_ that someone had ported the
> drivers for them from Linux.
> 
The wavelan cards are cool and all, but I really don't think that they could 
go 3 miles...we can run around my office building with them and be fine, but 
much more than that is just no good...

rob

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