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- From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Subject: Re: Wireless LANs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.151211.4220@arizona.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:12:08 GMT
- References: <meR3wB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
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- In article <meR3wB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, tbenham@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Tom Benham) writes:
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- |
- | I read a review in PC Magazine that said NCR's WaveLan can go
- | upto 5 miles with roof mounted antenna. Are there any other
- | products that can do the same or better and don't require a
- | license to operate them? I need to go just slight over 5 miles
- | and I definietly want to bypass Ma. Thanks.
- |
- | Tom Benham
-
- Your best bet might be the ARLAN 620 bridges from Telesystems.
- They need no FCC license and are supposed to be able to transmit
- over a line of sight path of up to 6 miles. They yield a speed of
- something like 200-700Kbps FDX (though their brochures misleadingly
- describe them as delivering 400Kbps-1.4Mbps HDX.)
-
- We have a pair of them working over a 1.5 mile path with no problems
- at all. The whole shebang (2 bridges, antenna cables, antennae) should
- run you around ten grand.
-
- (Vendor list follows.)
-
- Aaron
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- Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
- University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
- "It's not a bug, it's a form of flow control."
- - Jerry Leichter on why crash-prone Unix is a suitable
- platform for NSFNET core routers
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- Suggested vendors:
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- Data Systems Sales
- 1615 Broadway Suite 210
- Oakland CA 94612
- 1 714 974 6544
- Ken Kaminishi
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- South Hills Datacomm
- 760 Beechnut Drive
- Pittsburgh PA 15205
- 1 800 245 6215
-