Wireless bridge woes....

[Euthorus]

Here is what I got going on:

We have a wireless broadband installed by a local company with a big antena on the roof of my friend's house. there is a fat coax cable that drops from the antena into his PC. The PC has a card that accepts that large coax connection. I am desperately trying to find a bridge to bridge this broadband to a router and then to his other computer and I am having no luck at all.

The only possible bridge/AP I saw that might fit the size of his cable from the antena is the Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless Worgroup Bridge and they are extremely expensive ($400+)

Does anyone know of anything else that could bridge a connection that fits one of these Cisco bridges here is what it looks like (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44997&item=3092885064&rd=1#ebayphotohosting)

[Euthorus]

hrmmm....anyone ? :t

[Midknyte]

the best you could hope for would be to get a SOHO bridge and an adapter for the cable. I like Linksys, especially in your case since Linksys is owned by Cisco. You could try other brands like NetGear or Dlink also. Just make sure they have removable antennae.

for cable adapters:
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/

I think Hawkingtech has adapters/antennae available at CompUSA, but don't quote me on that.

[L8NightHype]

I think Hawkingtech has adapters/antennae available at CompUSA, but don't quote me on that.

...heh heh...I just quoted you on that...

:p

[Midknyte]

Um. ok. So does that mean they DO have hawkingtech products? I thought I saw them at CompUSA before, but I didn't see it the last time I went there. Maybe they moved it some place else. :confused:

[kwebb]

Talk to your provider before you spend any money. If they have any sense at all they will be doing MAC filtering as well as other preventative measures on their WWAN. In the unlikely even you do get a workgroup bridge to associate to their AP, they will still likely know that you have done it. Later if not sooner. Then if you are breaking your SLA they will either cut you off, the easy road, or cut you off AND take legal action, the dificult one. What was agreed upon, unless you have already gotten their permission, was a wireless NIC, an antenna, some coax and connectors. Introduce something foreign into THEIR equipment and you could be asking for trouble. Obviously disregard if this has already been ok'd.