802.11 Pre-N products shipping: 8X range, 6x speed

Great just what I need to create a link between Nelspruit and Hazyview. There is only
one person with a SAIX leased line in Hazyview and he is not able to get involved with the mesh. Place this Belkin AP on the mountain
midway on the Numbi road, jack a www.rflinx.com $99 power amplifier into it. Connect a signal splitter to it. Connect two www.poynting.co.za parabolic back-to-back antenna's to this signal splitter from www.hyperlinktech.com. The poynting's have N-type Female connectors. This is connected to a LM400 microwave cable and then terminanted into the signal spitter. Lets just assume the Belkin uses SMA connector which connects to the signal splitter.
At Nelspruit you need a Belkin connected to a power amplifier and at Hazyview.
If the range really is 8X then one might not even need an amplifier. Then we might just
bring broadband to the lodges.

So will somebody explain to me how on earth will I secure this highsite
against vandalism and theft of the solar panel ?

John - the only reasonable way to secure the highsite is to make it look like something else, and make sure that nobody see's you installing it. Pretend that you are camping there for 1 night and set it up during the night and make it look like an anthill / rock formation. Otherwise, you'll have to install it on an impossible to reach place. Also, remeber to make it fire-proof.

When i worked at the Army ( as a sivvie ) we had a microwave relay up on a mountain. It was initially powered by Eskom ( same as the telkom container right next to ours )

First lighting strike took out both containers full of equipment.

So the Army put up solar panels. A couple of months later the link dies. They find the solar panels had been "shopped". They manage to locate them on the roof of a nearby school who baught them from some bloke.
They took the panels back hooked them up again. A couple of months later the same story happens. The same school baught the same panels from the same guys again. Same story, take em back and put them up again.

Then winter comes, and snow and ice cover the panels and the microwave transmitter. So once a week we gotta send a signals tiffie up the mountain to go clean of the snow and ice. It eventually got so bad that we'd have no link for days at a time.

So the next was to put up wind generators. The first one promptly got blown off the mountain.

The second one would hide away when the wind got too strong. It also blew off the mountain.

I think theyre back on solar panels now.

Then there were the batteries. A bank of 64 all-weather batteries. With the first heavy snow half the batties froze and died. They eventually replaced them with tried-and-tested marnet batteries. Those things last forever and can handle extreme temps.

Obelix

gppd point

How about billboards?
1) They span the N1
2) They have red-warning lights at the top
3) They can be used as reflectors?
Watertowers?
Ceilings of flat blocks (these are usually sealed off by the landlord, so good target).

Get permission first.
You don't wanna get into some serious trouble