You can also take off the dinky little omni directional ant.'s and strap on a uni-
directional hibachi grill ant. and put a DC injector into the line and really boost 
the signal and irradiate all your neighbors :)   I used to work for an ISP that did 
wireless internet access across the city, using 802.11g equipment.

cYa
Brady


> I know at least one person wanted to know my progress
> on setting up a wireless network over to my friend's
> house. I bought 2 Linksys WAP11's in order to do this.
> They arrived last night and I set them up with little
> trouble.
> 
> These little things are neat. I followed the manual
> carefully to set them up in point to point mode, which
> means they will only talk to each other (and
> unfortunately the initial setup utility via USB
> control cable only works through Windows). I thought
> they should have been working right away, but I ended
> up powering them down and they worked after powerup (I
> think, I'm not 100% sure when they started working,
> but it was sometime after the power cycle).
> 
> So from one end of my appartment to the other (maybe
> 50+ feet) here is the ping time to the remote wireless
> device:
> 
> (speedy)[/home/andy] > ping -c 10 192.168.1.251
> PING 192.168.1.251 (192.168.1.251): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64
> time=8.985 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=3.420 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
> time=4.267 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
> time=3.544 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64
> time=6.369 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64
> time=3.515 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64
> time=3.397 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64
> time=4.256 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64
> time=3.497 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.251: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64
> time=3.813 ms
> 
> ----192.168.1.251 PING Statistics----
> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0%
> packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev =
> 3.397/4.506/8.985/1.809 ms
> 
> The only reason they talk IP is for the SNMP
> configuration tool. Otherwise, they don't care about
> IP. BUT, they do send back pings which is nice. You
> don't have to have any device hooked up to it to ping
> it, so you can run around the house plugging in the
> power and try pinging it to see if it still works.
> 
> Ok, bad news. It didn't work going over to my friends
> house about 100 - 120 feet away. There is a laundry
> room in between, but I didn't try plugging it in there
> to see if it works. Doesn't matter really. I'm going
> to try the firmware hack to double the output power of
> the internal amplifier from this link:
> 
> http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/fun_with_the_wap11.txt
> 
> And try again.
> 
> Andy
> 
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