This wiki page shows how to build an outdoor wireless network:

• High gain directional antennas
• bridges/access points wireless - WAP54G e WRT54G (Linksys) and Zinwell G-120
• PCI wireless network card
• coaxial cable RGC-213
• connector N (and how to assembly it)
• connector F
• pig tail SMA e TNC (linksys)

This wiki page was created for documenting the installation of a home wireless connections. It will be detailed the how to connect a remote machine to a network and how to interconnect 2 LANs using the connection of a wireless bridge. The distance between the two location is about 1 Km.

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— Guilherme Peretti Pezzi

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1. Extern Antenna: can be omnidirectional (irradiating 360 degrees horizontally), sectoral or directional. As the objective here is to interconnect two points, it were used two high gain directional antennas.
2. Antenna cable: it’s recommended to use low attenuation coaxial cable and with at most 10m of length.
3. PigTail: connects the antenna cable to the wireless device. It’s used to “convert” the antenna cable to the wireless device connector (which usually is quite smaller then the antenna cable connector. The Pig Tail is also a cable (rg58), but with a smaller diameter (what causes a higher attenuation) and so, it should not be longer than 30 cm.
4. Wireless device: it can be an access point, wireless pci card, wireless bridge, repeater, etc., but it must have an external connector. Usually the device comes originally with a small antenna, you should detach this antenna and connect the pigtail on its place.

Connecting a remote computer with a wireless pci card on the local network, through a wireless access point.

• Materials: pictures and description (in Portuguese only, sorry)

• Cable assembly.

Connecting two LAN employing one access point and a wireless bridge.

In this example, it were used the same antennas and cables from example 1, changing only the wireless devices and the pig tails.

• Materials: pictures and description (in Portuguese only, sorry)

• Configuration of the bridge, access point and firmwares.

• Positioning.

The devices used in this test were the Linksys WRT54G and the WAP54G.s point/bridge Linksys WAP54G.

...
64 bytes from roteador (192.168.1.1): icmp_seq=3484 ttl=64 time=2.15 ms

--- roteador ping statistics ---
3484 packets transmitted, 3482 received, 0% packet loss, time 3491379ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.011/10.926/534.392/52.934 ms

Speed for transferring 50 Mbytes via scp.