Maximum distance with standard 802.11?

0ldman · January 27, 2012, 12:12am

What is the max distance for 802.11? I know ack timeout is limited to around 400us, but how far is that?

I am looking at a 40-50 mile link and I may not be able to use nstreme or NV2 due to self interference.

0ldman · February 2, 2012, 4:18am

bump

Google seems to say around 27 miles, is this correct?

normis · February 2, 2012, 6:17am

in the olden days, before nstreme was invented, guys in this forum made a 300km link, breaking a world record. it was run on RB532 devices. They had super huge parabolic dish antennas and very good line of sight.

0ldman · February 2, 2012, 4:25pm

Thanks Normis.

I thought that link used Nstreme?

How did they get around the ack timing limitation? 802.11B?

JP_Wireless · February 2, 2012, 5:06pm

in that case you leave the ack timeout on dynamic for self determination.

0ldman · February 2, 2012, 5:20pm

I have had issues with a 24 mile link with v3.30 and v4.17 clients connecting to a 5.x AP with ack set to dynamic on the 5.x AP. I had to set the distance manually before the client would connect.