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February 23, 2010 at 07:56 PM
rukk

Short-range wireless solution?

by rukk . Updated 16 years, 3 months ago

I have a client that’s moving their second office within 200M of their main office. They’re current office is in the next building to even another office, with fiber between them. The fiber’s only 20M, if that, but cost a mint and they’re not willing to pay for more fiber.

I used to work for a wireless Ethernet carrier and I’m thinking that a point-to-point wireless solution would be the cheapest. I’ve called some providers that would sell us gear to get set up, but that blows into the 1000’s and I think it’s extreme overkill for 200M.

Can someone recommend some wireless devices that would be up to the task? At this point I’m unsure of the line-of-sight, but I imagine we’ll be able to establish something, so perhaps the devices should be somewhat weather proof? We don’t want anything that’s going to broadcast the network, like a DLink repeater/etc, but something that’s going to be encrypted and strictly point-to-point with the other end’s device.

Any suggestions or advice would be great. Thanks in advance!

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