Mike,<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.engeniustech.com/">http://www.engeniustech.com/</a> is the manufacturer that I am aware of that specializes in exterior mountable and high powered WIFI antennas, routers and such. hit their web site and if you find something that should work, I can get them for you at CCSIservers.com through local distributors if interested. I don't know if you would find them at Frys or MC.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Greg Clifton<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I was wondering if anyone on the list knew of a consumer-oriented device<br>
that would enable one to create a multicell Wifi network using an<br>
existing Ethernet network as a backbone. I don't seem to be having much<br>
luck finding anything.<br>
<br>
Someone I know wants to cover their (somewhat large) property with WiFi.<br>
In the past, they had a repeater-type thing setup, but the way that the<br>
repeater worked was less than optimal; it had two wireless chipsets in<br>
it and it would join one to the existing Wifi network and the other one<br>
would be its own distinct access point. The result was that any Wifi<br>
device would have to be taught (by the user) about both networks, and<br>
transfer between them was anything but seamless.<br>
<br>
I was also looking to see if that was something that DD-WRT knew how to<br>
do, but I am not turning anything up there, either.<br>
<br>
The desired feature is to have worry-free roaming throughout the<br>
(intended) four cells in the network, without having problems like loss<br>
of IP sessions. A transitory delay would be acceptable, so long as it's<br>
not going through a whole network-down, re-associate, DHCP-handshake,<br>
there's-a-new-IP stack for your applications to use type cycle. TCP<br>
connections should survive the process without having to rely on luck,<br>
in other words.<br>
<br>
I know that very large Wifi networks are setup to do this, and I'm<br>
guessing that they use special expensive hardware to do so. Obviously,<br>
cost is a factor here, so ideally something that uses commodity hardware<br>
would be great.<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
<br>
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