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adelayde writes "You're a wireless network engineer and you work on the run. You need a kit that gives you flexibily yet is light and portable. Style is also important to you. This article (mirrored here) describes just the kit you need, based on modifying the Apple AirPort base station with suggestions for a range of handy antenna attachments and includes component part numbers and prices as well as a complete set of range test results. Just the Jobs for the wireless engineer on the go." Update: 04/08 00:06 GMT by T : Here's another mirror, thanks to the story submitter ;)
This article is pretty pointless to focus on Apple. Unforuntately clueless people will read it and assume that in order to use wireless they'll have to drill and void their warranty. The fact is there are plenty of other products for which none of that is necessary.
/. ran one of these "Mod your Airport" articles however many years ago it was cool but the wireless product landscape was very different then.
The first time
I think anyone who calls themselves a "wireless engineer" should be able to figure out how to put an N connector on an Airport. Unless you mean "engineer" in the "sanitation engineer" sense.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Some of the newer Airports (AirPort Extreme perhaps) have an external antenna jack. There's even a company selling a matching external antenna, no drilling required.
It's so good, it even mirrors the slashdotted state of the original...
Black and grey are both shades of white.
Mirror Be gentle.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
No I'm not, and I don't even want to get started down that path to fantasy. I'll just be depressed again when I open my eyes and realize that I'm still in this tiny office , with a job description that is nowhere near as exciting as "wireless network engineer".
I go through these bouts of depression too much as it is with my constant, recurring, and haunting "you are a porn star that will be filming a scene with Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez....." day dreams.
For all the effort to do this, it is worth it to pay the extra 50 (or so) bucks and get the Airport Extreme with the antenna jack.
How much is your time worth after all?
If it's not worth it then by all means, go ahead and drill.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
does anyone else think its a bad idea to name a server "flakey"?
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
This is a pointless /. story.
1. First of all, this 'airport', is really just an RG1100 with a different cover. Sure, you can connect antennas to it. But it's not a "MAC Only" think it's a "Windows thing" that just so happens to have MAC OSX drivers. Google on rg1000 + linux/windows. You'll find several java config tools. Moron.
2. Anyone who really has the title 'wireless network engineer' would know that building homebrew antennas just isn't worth the time. most of them end up sucking, and it's MUCH cheaper to just purchase one online.
3. Anyone who cared about the FCC regs wouldn't do this.
4. To do real LOS tests, you want antenna systems with known gain & radial patterns.
5. You'll want kistmet, as some other posters highly under-rated posted.