Wide Area Wireless on a Shoestring Budget?

wkytechhead asks: "My father owns a greenhouse operation that covers a few dozen acres. He has a number of greenhouses some up to 1000' plus apart that he would like to network. Currently he is using a HomePNA based network via regular RJ12. He has decided that he would like to go at least partially wireless. Some consideration has been given to using the backbone with fiber convertors, but he would really like to do full wireless. I have checked into homemade and commercial 'Cantennas' but I am not sure if they are worth the money. How would my fellow geeks go about wirelessly networking a large outdoor area for as cheap as possible?"

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[Ion Berkley]

This is a serious and valuable post.

No question defined, please restate

[yack0]

Yeah, there you go, just ask slashdot to offer a solution to a problem you haven't defined. Just what is this network for? Simple monitoring of things at low bandwidth? Sending constant video streams of the greenhouse conditions back to the office? What?

WHY a network? WHAT applications? It's entirely likely that whatever anyone here recommends won't match what you're trying to do.

Define your problem before asking for solutions to it.

Good luck