I humbly submit to you my technology question of the month (possibly year):
Two locations exist at a certain corporation, the sales office and the manufacturing facility. They're about 1/2 mile away from each other. Currently, each building has its own fixed wireless internet access, which we pay a substantial sum for. VPN is quirky and I'm not sure I want to mess with it, but we now need to reliably connect the networks at both locations (again, 1/2 mile apart, appx, and a nice, unobstructed line-of-sight). So the goals are to connect the two networks, and to share just one internet connection.
The obvious question: What's the easiest way to do this, keeping cost and reliability both within reason? My initial inclination is to buy a couple of Linksys WRT54G routers, hack the firmware with the popular 3rd party one of choice to make them act as slave/client modules (also allows you to boost the output power), and hook them both up to a couple of high gain outdoor 2.4 GHz antennas pointed at each other.
While that sounds simple, it isn't exatly, and I'm kind of jumping in with both feet without knowing for sure whether this is the way to go or not...
Any help or even a vague idea of where to get more information on the subject would be appreciated... Thanks in advance, guys.
Two locations exist at a certain corporation, the sales office and the manufacturing facility. They're about 1/2 mile away from each other. Currently, each building has its own fixed wireless internet access, which we pay a substantial sum for. VPN is quirky and I'm not sure I want to mess with it, but we now need to reliably connect the networks at both locations (again, 1/2 mile apart, appx, and a nice, unobstructed line-of-sight). So the goals are to connect the two networks, and to share just one internet connection.
The obvious question: What's the easiest way to do this, keeping cost and reliability both within reason? My initial inclination is to buy a couple of Linksys WRT54G routers, hack the firmware with the popular 3rd party one of choice to make them act as slave/client modules (also allows you to boost the output power), and hook them both up to a couple of high gain outdoor 2.4 GHz antennas pointed at each other.
While that sounds simple, it isn't exatly, and I'm kind of jumping in with both feet without knowing for sure whether this is the way to go or not...
Any help or even a vague idea of where to get more information on the subject would be appreciated... Thanks in advance, guys.
