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 !! Advanced 

 You know this wireless stuff up and down and you want to create a full on long range wireless network. 

 

-You'll probably want to setup a dedicated box running a standard [Linux] distro or a wireless specific build such as the (http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/ Pebble distro). You've got 2 wireless [PCMCIA cards] in your box running [IBSS] mode, one is connected to a 24dBi [ParabolicAntenna parabolic] pointed at Joe 10km away, and the other is connected to a 15dBi [YagiAntenna yagi] pointed at Fred 3km in the other direction. You've setup [IPForwarding packet forwarding] in Linux in order to [Routing route] traffic between Joe's net and your net and Fred's net.  You're running a dynamic routing protocol such as [OSPF]. 

+You'll probably want to setup a dedicated box running a standard [Linux] distro or a wireless specific build such as the [PebbleLinux Pebble distro]. You've got 2 wireless [PCMCIA cards] in your box running [IBSS] mode, one is connected to a 24dBi [ParabolicAntenna parabolic] pointed at Joe 10km away, and the other is connected to a 15dBi [YagiAntenna yagi] pointed at Fred 3km in the other direction. You've setup [IPForwarding packet forwarding] in Linux in order to [Routing route] traffic between Joe's net and your net and Fred's net.  You're running a dynamic routing protocol such as [OSPF]. 

 

 You're locally mirroring 100GB of popular data. You're running local [HTTP]/[FTP]/[SMTP]/[DNS]/[DHCP]/[Quake]/[CounterStrike]/[IM] [Server servers]. You've also got an [AccessPoint AP] running [BSS] mode connected to a 8dBi [OmniAntenna Omni Antenna] to give public access to your neighbors and the coffee shop next door, and people in that park across the street.  You may even have an [Amplifier] inline with your AP and Omni to get you up to full [LicensesFAQ legal] transmit [EIRP power].