Chapter 10. LONG RANGE POINT-TO-POINT LINKS

As low cost Wi-Fi equipment has become widely available, many users have thought about aiming an antenna at a nearby building or a hillside 5 or 10 miles away to create a cheap, high speed, two-way data link. Some experimenters and tinkerers with more time than money have even designed their own antennas out of tin cans, potato chip canisters, and junk from their basement workshops. They have generally discovered that Wi-Fi links can be a reliable way to move data across a lot of ground.