>>I’ve got a nice 15 dBi grid dish hooked up to my wrt54g, ready to go peer-to-peer using custom firmware if the need arises.<<
Can you please decode that for me?
My DH is an IT person and installed phones before this.
He is pretty bright.
If we lose the internet, I want to keep in touch with the rebels. ;-)
One of these:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ANT2400D15A&cpc=SCH
Connected to one of these:
http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?M=LINKSYS_WRT54G3GV2-ST&ID=3241489 Older versions of this wireless router are hard to find but very important since the newest linksys routers don't have external antennas you can easily detach and replace with a single outdoor antenna. You can even make your own antenna out of a soup can with the right parts, but I bought the grid dish since it'll probably last longer and not rust. With a little custom 3rd party firmware (
http://www.dd-wrt.com/) uploaded to the router you can set it to act as a repeater, bridging separate networks over a great distance. With two small antennas like the one I have, one on each end, you can connect easily as far as 3 miles away, and I've heard some say as much as 10 miles - depends largely on how much power you're willing to set the router to with DD-WRT; more power = more range = less lifespan of the router.