More MonkeyBrains Wireless


AccessPoint->Connector/Wire->Antenna->SoftwareSetup->Test

Access Points
  1. Premade:
    Symbol
    Zyxel
  2. Embedded:
    picoBSD links

    Wireless Mutants
  3. Old PC:
    Scrape together an old PC, get a wireless PCI card, and voila!
    Boot medium can be an old harddisk, floppy, CDROM, or FlashCard.  For now, we will use harddisks while we are still learning the setup.  This is the natrual precursor to using embedded systems.  There are PCCARD to PCI converters to aid in making a ghetto box.  Otherwise an old laptop would work... must have Ethernet.
Wires and Connectors
Engenius has an MMCX femail jack
Seattle Pigtails for Orinoco cards...

Antennas
Parabolic Dish
Superpass
Homemade PrimeStar
Coffee Cans

How to set up your network
O'Reilly Recipe
Tellex WISP FAQ


Current Hardware
1 FreeBSD bridge with ethernet and a wireless card attached to a parabolic dish.
1 ambicom card (WL1100)
1 EnGenius wireless SL-2100  (read seattle wireless review)
2 orinoco silver cards (in the mail) (hack it to a gold)
2 Parabolic Dishes
2 coffee Can directional antennas
1 PrimeStar dish

EnGenius offers many wireless products for your home or office needs. The EL-2511 CD+EXT2 card  is a 200mW dual mode wireless PC card. Supports various programs and has extendable one or two high gain antennas for extra coverage.

Other
Salker Tips, how to Triangulate
SF commercial wireless provider, subscibe and recieve an annual
membership to their networks
Freenetwork project that does not cross telco wire, and it's local chapter, sfwireless.net