1 KM wifi hotspot

[DOGOFWAR]

i would like to set up a wifi hotspot more or less 1sqkm for work, i have had a look at most of the post but none

seem to answer my questions well enough.
most of the area has a decent LoS but some of the buildings are multi story. If possible i would like to have the

transmitters in/on one building whether its omni or sectional, but as a final resort wouldnt mind a bridged

solution. the company employs about 100 people and would like for them to get wifi in seperate warehouses just only

using the normal laptop wifi.
If some one who has underetaken a similar project could advise me on which equipmet to use(attenas, AP, power

supplies and routers) it would be greatly appreciated

 

[ColinR]

using the normal laptop wifi.

Definitely not possible with a single Access Point, no matter how powerful. Problem with this set-up is that although the Access Point can be powerful enough to reach the laptop, the laptops wireless will never reach back to the base 1km away.

Your best bet if you want to go completely wireless is to have point to multipoint links per building, then redistribute that signal with further access points for the laptops to connect to.

 

[wetkit]

Fisrt of all, do a survey of the area with a laptop, just too see how many AP's there already is in that area.
Use Netstumbler. It is a free DL on the web.

How secure would you like the WiFi network to be?
Remember, with 100 users on one AP, you not gonna see any speed at all

I would like to reccomend Microtik equipment. Have a look at Scoop. They are the local retailers.
Please try and stay away from omni antenna's. They not very good with recieving signals from far away laptops.
Rather try and do distributed AP's throughout the area, but it all depends on your level of expertise and budget.

 

[portcullis]

I'm actually building something like this at the moment for a school using 6 NS2's all being controlled by 1 MikroTik RB493AH, but there's no way a laptop will get a signal 1km away. Our test showed anything more than 200m results in huge signal loss from the laptop back to the AP. It'll look something like this when it's done.

 

[DOGOFWAR]

Thanks for all your replies atleast now im on the right track, its clear i have to go with multiple access points, this itself poses another issue, if im gonna place access points lets say every 200m they are some places where connecting to a power outlet is impossible(that being the reason y i i was hoping for a "silver bullet" solution). the access points i was going for is the engenius EOC-2610 i havent done much research on ubiquity but if the access points can broadcast on b/g frequencies that laptops can send and recieve from im willing to take advise on which units to purchase

 

[kilos]

I'm actually building something like this at the moment for a school using 6 NS2's all being controlled by 1 MikroTik RB493AH, but there's no way a laptop will get a signal 1km away. Our test showed anything more than 200m results in huge signal loss from the laptop back to the AP. It'll look something like this when it's done.

Great hybrid solution portcullis, use the RB493AH in bridge mode for Hotspot/PPPoE connected to Radius Server.
We want to see some images of your NS2.
Nanobrackets from Miro are terrible & do not use them to mount against walls, hole too small &
plastic wall plug far too short, alright for pole mounting, got some installed in a very hot place.
Use something like this rather
Radius Manager 3.7 out on beta trials

 

[portcullis]

Kilos,

You know I post my fabrications on the UBNT wiki ;-)

We're in the process of doing something beyond radical in Somerset Mall. Watch the UBNT forums...

 

[kilos]

Kilos,

You know I post my fabrications on the UBNT wiki ;-)

We're in the process of doing something beyond radical in Somerset Mall. Watch the UBNT forums...

Sorry forgot portcullis - I remember your excellent quality on your installations