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Originally posted by Mr Mephisto
For starters, check out the thread "Wireless 101" I posted a few weeks back. http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...t=wireless+101
A couple of questions will help us give you the best advice.
1) Do you have 'line of sight' between the two buildings?
2) How far apart are the buildings?
3) Do you want to connect two seperate LANs, or create one "wireless network" between the buildings?
4) Are you going to use the WLAN for gaming, broadband internet, simple file sharing etc?
5) What is your budget?
My personal recommendation is for Linksys, if for no other reason that it is highly rated, supports WPA (the latest and currently unbroken wireless security standard) and is very easy to setup.
Of course, if you have the cash, go out and buy some Cisco Aironet stuff instead!
Mr Mephisto
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Linksys is utter CRAP. Many linksys drivers are broken, and crash when you try to install them. Thier APs cannot handle any sort of load and there are MANY memory leaks and bugs in the firmware. I do not know what you sohuld use, but stay the hell away from linksys. I know that Proxim/Orinoco PCMCIA cards are good, so you may have luck with thier access points, but I have not used them. I've found D-Link's access points are decent, but still have load problems, as many of them are the same hardware as linksys products with diffren firmware.
I share wireless access with the people next door with a D-Link DWL-900AP+ and a Linksys WAP11 v2.2 running firmware from D-Link for the DWL-900AP+. It works ok, but the Linksys unit next door has problems, and will stop working after a few days if not rebooted nightly. My D-Link AP only needs a reboot every few months.
Some of D-Links PCMCIA cards are crap, in particular, stay away from the DWL-650+. It has SERIOUS range issues.
You will need external antennas to cross the street, most likely. Shop around, the ones that the vendor offers are usualy a ripoff.