1KM, 2Mbps, 802.11b wireless link using Linksys WAP11 + Yagi, in Hurghada, EGYPT

[David Farber <farber () tmail com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. Berger <rberger () ibd com>
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, Dave Farber IP 
<dave () farber net>
Subject: 1KM, 2Mbps, 802.11b wireless link using Linksys WAP11 + Yagi, 
in Hurghada, EGYPT
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:28:10 +0900

<Don't think he's worried about meeting FCC certification>

1KM, 2Mbps, 802.11b wireless link using Linksys WAP11 + Yagi, in 
Hurghada,
EGYPT

By: Hassan Adly
Hurghada, Red Sea, EGYPT
Posted December 10, 2001
http://www.d128.com/wireless/

Background:

I have an Internet cafe in Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt, with an expensive
broadband satellite connection, located 1 km from my house. The roofs 
of
both buildings have a clear line of sight between them. At home I was
previously limited to a V.90 modem connection, and remote administration 
of
the cyber cafe network was impossible.

A fast connection between my house and the cafe was becoming more and 
more
necessary, mostly in order to provide remote administration at 
acceptable
speeds, but also of course to finally get fast Internet at home! 
Me-wann'
download quicky-quicky now!

<snip>

<My favorite part:>

My first project was based on the ingenious Pringles can design. The 
hardest
part for me about emulating the design on Rob Flickenger's  website 
was
finding Pringles cans for sale in Egypt. Fortunately I found a 
supermarket
that stocks them and was able to build a pair. If you want to try the
Pringles design let me warn you: Under no circumstances should you eat 
more
than a few Pringles at a time! After eating a canful I was positively 
sick,
to the point that all antenna construction was halted for two days!
Unfortunately after all my efforts the "Pringletenna" link refused to 
work,
either through a design fault of my own, or noise, or whatever. Maybe 
it's
the grease in the pringles..

<snip>

<another good part that would make some cringe:>

The WAP11's antenna connectors, I found to my chagrin, are unlike 
anything
available in northern Africa. The "pigtail" connectors I have read about 
on
American sites are unavailable in Egypt and considering that they cost 
about
$60 each anyway, all the better. After days of driving from one 
electronics
shop to another with no success, I decided to dismantle the standard 
WAP11
antenna and modify its connector for my purposes. After a lot of 
clamping,
hammering and grinding, this is what I ended up with, a brutalized 
Linksys
connector with a standard satellite dish N-connector jammed onto its
backside. So instead of a $60 pigtail, I got a solution that cost me 
about
$1 for the n-connectors (including the ones I destroyed during
experimentation). I got the approximately 4 meters of cable I needed 
for
free from a sat-dish repairman I know.

<snip>
--
Robert J. Berger - Internet Bandwidth Development, LLC.
In Tokyo as Glocom visiting research fellow through April 2003
Cell: +81 80-3121-6128 Work: +81 3-5411-6613 http://www.glocom.ac.jp
eFax: +1-408-490-2868 rberger () ibd com http://www.ibd.com
-- Dave

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