Wireless distance extended

have you checked into fiber opticals?
running wire (cat 5) limites is about 100 meters.

sorry I can not you to much

good luck

Hi,

Using wireless networking, research Access Points with directional antennas, you should be able to do the 500ft.

Cost? "Too much" is purely subjective. Directional antennas can cost up to $300 Australian.

You can either get directional antenna's that will go the 500ft (there are some cheap 1's out there)
or you could get a long range wirless network Hub, i know belkin do one which has lots of functions and it also has 'enable long range network' or somthing like that.
You will have to lock down your network either way...

You can either get directional antenna's that will go the 500ft (there are some cheap 1's out there)
or you could get a long range wirless network Hub, i know belkin do one which has lots of functions and it also has 'enable long range network' or somthing like that.
You will have to lock down your network either way...

Well, if you're concerned about cost your options are very limited.

The options are, wireless using attena's (sorry, I can't spell). Orinoco makes a moderately cheap access point and I believe they have some fairly powerhouse attena's available.

Fiber is costly and if you're looking to keep the cost down, then I don't recommend this.

Last option would be to setup the secondary office with it's own internet connection (cable), firewall, and create a VPN tunnel from that building to the other.

Although you're looking at about 129 monthly for the cable and about 1000 for the firewall and VPN options.

We have two offices connected about 1 Km apart extermely reliably(no loss of comms >6months) using off the shelf components.

Look at the D-Link range of access points i.e. DWL-900 or DWL2000. They support point to point and point to multipoint modes, the former being very secure because you program in the mac address of the remote device and it will only talk to that one. Higher gain antennas will extend the range again D-Link produce various ones but be careful about transmission powers as these are governed by regulation (if you are worrried by that).

One of the reasons why I like d-link (not because of interest, I am independant) is because they produce a good range that all interconnect. Different manufacturers use different plugs i.e. d-link = reverse SMA, Linksys = reverse TNC, Breezecom = shrouded SMA. We in fact replaced 2 ZoomAir unit with these because of reliability.

Try to mount the AP close to the antenna as all aerial cable produce more loss the longer they are. One set of mine are outside in an IPv6 box with PoE so it did'nt use what would otherwise be excessively long cables. This again works well.