Yes, you want to get a nice wide-angle antenna up high in a central point.
I would suggest a slotted waveguide antenna - you can get these in a number of configurations - such as 180 or 360 degrees. Others too.
We use a 180 degree slotted waveguide (17 dbi gain) as the central point of our fixed-wireless network in Wellington, New Zealand. We can then surf the net from about 4 km's away with a laptop's PC card (and no special antennas).
At our remote sites, we have an access point operating in client mode - connected to a fairly cheap panel antenna (15 dbi gain). This gives us throughput of around 8Mbps in both directions.
To keep costs down, you can minimise the use of expensive antenna cable by opening up your access point and installing it inside the panel antenna's housing. Also, you can run power-over-ethernet to power the access point.
Suggest you do a bit of reading about waveguides at www.trevormarshall.com/waveguides.htm
The costs end up being (converted to Euros)
Decent A/P for central point: 200 euros mounts: 10 euros waveguide antenna: 100 euros cables: 10 euros
Yes, I think I'll end up paying. I don't really mind as I think that Slashdot is a good site and is worth supporting. Basically, I enjoy reading slashdot and I think that they deserve a little of my money.
And anyway, $5 isn't too much for 1000 pages. That's half a cent a page. Seems to me that it's quite good value. I guess that'll last me around 3 months or so. And if you can choose which pages the ads are displayed on, then I guess that money will last even longer.
I suggest readers who object to paying compare that $5 figure with other similarly priced products and services. Trying comparing it to a Big Mac combo from McD's. Or the price of a trip on the tube / train into your local city.
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I really like the sound of being able to see rejected submissions. Sometimes I just feel like surfin' some techno type stories, and it'll be nice to see some of the more "oldball" submissions.
When will I pay?
As for when I'll be paying up - I think I'll wait until these ads arrive. Plus the new features.
1. I had the same problem with Java Web Start. The problem was with my own.jnlp file. I had incorectly specified the required JVM version number as "1.3" instead of "1.3+". This now indicates that version 1.3 or better is allowed.
2. Strictly speaking, you don't really need to set a CLASSPATH environment variable these days. By default, the JVM will use all of the standard jar files, etc. You only need to set the CLASSPATH if you want to use some 3rd party JAR files.
You'll probably find that the machine that Range Inc are using to scan the various networks (Gnutella, Usenet, etc) is assigned to a non-existant company.
Also, they'll be changing their IP address every so often to prevent DOS attacks, etc.
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The 25 MB figure is the maximum file size.
If you chose a custom installation and disable many of the optional features (eh: NetPhone, AIM, Java, etc) then the download size reduces down to around 8 or 9 MB.
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Yes, you want to get a nice wide-angle antenna up high in a central point.
I would suggest a slotted waveguide antenna - you can get these in a number of configurations - such as 180 or 360 degrees. Others too.
We use a 180 degree slotted waveguide (17 dbi gain) as the central point of our fixed-wireless network in Wellington, New Zealand. We can then surf the net from about 4 km's away with a laptop's PC card (and no special antennas).
At our remote sites, we have an access point operating in client mode - connected to a fairly cheap panel antenna (15 dbi gain). This gives us throughput of around 8Mbps in both directions.
To keep costs down, you can minimise the use of expensive antenna cable by opening up your access point and installing it inside the panel antenna's housing. Also, you can run power-over-ethernet to power the access point.
Suggest you do a bit of reading about waveguides at www.trevormarshall.com/waveguides.htm
The costs end up being (converted to Euros)
Decent A/P for central point: 200 euros
mounts: 10 euros
waveguide antenna: 100 euros
cables: 10 euros
at remote sites:
panel antenna: 40 euros
mounts: 10 euros
cheap A/P: 75 euros
cables: 10 euros
And finally - the most important thing is line-of-slight.
I find that the "worst jobs" are often caused by the people you're working with/for.
Sure, you can get a boring job, etc - but life can be made really difficult when you have a "mean" boss. It's time to get out when this happens.
Yes, I think I'll end up paying. I don't really mind as I think that Slashdot is a good site and is worth supporting. Basically, I enjoy reading slashdot and I think that they deserve a little of my money.
And anyway, $5 isn't too much for 1000 pages. That's half a cent a page. Seems to me that it's quite good value. I guess that'll last me around 3 months or so. And if you can choose which pages the ads are displayed on, then I guess that money will last even longer.
I suggest readers who object to paying compare that $5 figure with other similarly priced products and services. Trying comparing it to a Big Mac combo from McD's. Or the price of a trip on the tube / train into your local city.
New Features
I really like the sound of being able to see rejected submissions. Sometimes I just feel like surfin' some techno type stories, and it'll be nice to see some of the more "oldball" submissions.
When will I pay?
As for when I'll be paying up - I think I'll wait until these ads arrive. Plus the new features.
Just a few comments:
.jnlp file. I had incorectly specified the required JVM version number as "1.3" instead of "1.3+". This now indicates that version 1.3 or better is allowed.
1. I had the same problem with Java Web Start. The problem was with my own
2. Strictly speaking, you don't really need to set a CLASSPATH environment variable these days. By default, the JVM will use all of the standard jar files, etc. You only need to set the CLASSPATH if you want to use some 3rd party JAR files.
The Citylink website is:
www.citylink.co.nz
You'll probably find that the machine that Range Inc are using to scan the various networks (Gnutella, Usenet, etc) is assigned to a non-existant company.
Also, they'll be changing their IP address every so often to prevent DOS attacks, etc.
The 1.3.1 version of the Java Runtime is 5,364,696 bytes.
The 25 MB figure is the maximum file size.
If you chose a custom installation and disable many of the optional features (eh: NetPhone, AIM, Java, etc) then the download size reduces down to around 8 or 9 MB.
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