"jeff keenan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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(me, in a prior post)
>>I think what I need is a repeater, but thus far, I'm clueless, it seems.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>L8R
>>
>>Skip
> you do not need a repeater that would not work.
>
> yes you can use one cb3
> http://www.keenansystems.com/store/c...&products_id=8
> as the bridge and connect to another cb3 in access point mode via a
> crossover cable. They must be on non over lapping channels (1,6 or 11)
> so if the boat bridge is connected to a channel 1 access point your
> boat access point should be on channel 11.
>
> You will have to set your boat access point and bridge to different ip
> address of course use 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 most default access point
> will be in the 192.168 range you can also add a secondary ip address
> like 10.0.0.100 on your computers ethernet card for management of the
> cb3's click advanced on tcp/ip and add it there. Set normal ip address
> to dhcp so it picks up from the land based access point.
>
Thank you, Jeff, for an informed opinion. I'm not at the same site as the
equipment (it's in the storage building where the other stuff going to the
boat is at the moment). So, particularly since this week is chock-a-block
with medical stuff related to my ability to leave, it will have to wait
until next week. However...
I'll try setting one of the units to CH1, the other to 11, both of them on
the 10 set net, and adding another custom net of the 10 class to my DHCP
enabled wifi internal.
Of course, I'd far rather make what I have, having already spent the bux
toget them, work, so this is encouraging. In particular, with two 200mw
units, one for each end's activity, it surely seems that I'll have great
coverage. However, I'm curious as to why a repeater wouldn't work - or,
were you referring to *adding* a repeater to what I have as not working?
Finally, as originally configured, these were two modules (no cases, but the
breadboard allowing the PCMCIA card to operate outside the computer),
separated by standoffs, in the same weatherproof housing, with the 20" stick
out the top on a lightning arrestor/protector and the duck out the bottom,
both powered by house (12V DC, nominal) power. Do you see any problems with
this arrangement?
I'll report back when I've attempted your setup.
Thanks again.
L8R
Skip
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:21:16 -0400, "Skip Gundlach" <skipgundlach at
> gmail dotcom> wrote:
>
>>Hi, Jeff,
>>
>>I have two of your 2611CB3 Deluxe which are giving me fits. Obviously I'm
>>doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is. Recommendations here
>>(this forum) seem only to add more gear, when these two, by themselves,
>>when
>>connected, are in fibrillation.
>>
>>I'd love to go offline with you on this, but for a quickie summary, see
>>"cutting the wire on a sailboat" for a review of my challenges.
>>
>>What would you suggest? Looking at your 3054 manual suggests it's
>>virtually
>>alike except only 100mw, and nothing in the literature I see shows how to
>>use it as a repeater.
>>
> This all requires basic tcp/ip networking skills might be worth your
> wile to pick up the crab book
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp2/index.html
> so you can understand what you are trying to do
"Skip Gundlach" <skipgundlach at gmail dotcom> wrote in message
news:5f578$43540370$a227fd95$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, y'all,
>
> In addition to a Hawking 54G desktop unit, which serves me reasonably well
> (even though I use it in a sheltered outdoor environment, using an active
> USB extension cable), but has some limitations for what I want to do, I've
> got this neat bridge (Senao 2611DB3 Deluxe) in a NEMA enclosure atop
> the mast, with an 8.5 dBi antenna connected to it via a 6" pigtail
> (virtually no signal loss). It's 200mw, so it reaches out really far (23
> dBm). Its antenna
> is omidirectional so it doesn't matter which direction the boat's
> pointing.
> The signal pattern is fat enough to cover sea level to many hundred feet
> high from the typical anchoring location. It's point-to-multipoint so it
> can see any available "visible" access point. Because my XP network
> program
> controls for me, I can select which of the available access points it sees
> that I want to talk to.
>
> Connected to my computer via ethernet, and powered with 12V via separately
> appropriately sized wire, both up the mast, it sees a WAAAY farther than
> the
> card in my laptop would, allowing me a great deal more latitude in finding
> a
> usable signal when I'm at anchor, wherever that may be.
>
> However, I'd really like to shed the wired connection (the ethernet
> connected to my computer, as it's a laptop and I'd like to be able to
> carry
> it up on deck without a tether).
>
> Unfortunately, a bridge won't talk in both directions over the antenna.
> How
> can I get some other wireless device (one which can talk to my computer)
> to
> seamlessly (so I see my remote AP as though it were coming in via my
> laptop
> antenna) talk to my bridge?
>
> There may be a variety of voltages of whatever this device may need; I'll
> work out getting power to it (but 12V, being a boat, would be preferable),
> and, as long as I'm having more than one I'll put it up the mast, in the
> enclosure, too, so there's essentially no distance between the two, in
> case
> that's of any issue.
>
> Can this be done? Can I put some other wireless device (that is, which
> can
> see my computer's wifi) in connection with my bridge, so I can see (and
> choose which of potentially many) a remote AP? If so, what is that
> device?
>
> Better, is there a device which already integrates those functions? I
> need
> the wattage for power, the N-connector (or pigtail) for the hi-gain stick,
> and the means of communication to the top of the mast both from shore and
> from the deck (which my laptop wifi can see without extra help like the
> Hawking 54G or other signal boosters) so that I can choose, like a hotspot
> finder would, the particular shorepoint I want.
>
> FWIW, what's prompted this search is the intractible IP conflicts which
> arise whenever I connect two of these (2611DB3) together, one set as AP
> and
> the other as bridge. They work fine in either wireless mode or ethernet,
> connected to my laptop one at a time (with the other on the other, wifi or
> cat5 connection). No amount of IP configuration fiddling will change that
> behavior when they're linked via cat5, so I presume there's some internal
> conflict between the units when connected together. I'm ready to ditch
> that
> setup, if there's something else which will do the job, either the AP side
> of the two I have, or a single unit resulting in the ditching of both of
> them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> L8R
>
> Skip, trying to cruise with connectivity, but not by wire
>
> --
> Morgan 461 #2
> SV Flying Pig
> http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her
>
> "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
> didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
> away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
> Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
>
>
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