I have a similar set up. But I can get damn near unlimited speeds.

What you should do, is become an ISP and make some extra money from it.

Last year I had 1 night of no svc when we had an ice storm, it works through rain, snow and just about anything else.

The cost of the 75' tower was $4k installed. You would need outdoor wireless bridge equipment from senao or another manufacturer. Not to mention someone willing to climb up and point the dish thankfully my installers did that.

I,d hate to climb up on that thing, specially seeing as how windy it was this past weekend:helpme

Brad, consider these two scenarios:

1) Someone wants free access so they crack your WEP encryption and spoof a MAC address to nick your wifi connection. You may or may not notice, but the end result probably isn't too significant (unless they're a super leech)

2) Someone wants to see your data, so they capture everything and crack your WEP encryption. Once WEP is cracked they can go back to the previously captured packets and view everything unencrypted. Because it's 100% passive the first you may know of this is when they actually do something with the data they've captured. This scenario could be far more damaging to your business and wellbeing in the long run. :2 cents:

WEP is junk, you need something far stronger.

Those scenarios are very possible yes. I know what you don't suggest I do but what do you suggest I do to stop this?

can we see more pictures?

very nice

cool idea

I would upgrade the equipment you are using to get a more reliable system. We used Western Multiplex equipment and had really good results.

Fitty Towers of POWER:thumbsup

I like your style....Doing what it takes:thumbsup

Mr. Romance

Here are some pics of my 100' home tower setup

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...-Images/11.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...-Images/34.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...-Images/38.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...2-Images/1.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...2-Images/4.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...2-Images/8.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...2-Images/9.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...-Images/12.jpg

http://www.bradgosse.com/antenna_day...-Images/11.jpg

WPA2-PSK is the best wireless encryption available right now and it can be cracked. There is no safe way to use wireless. Where there is a will, there is a way. :)

The thing about security is that someone who really wants to packet sniff my data could simply break into the telephone box down the road and tap my fibre.

It doesn't have to be over WIFI it's just a little less secure. Spoofing my mac address AND cracking my WEP is not so easy when my beam is very narrow and you would need some pretty heavy equipment and elevation to find the signal in the first place.

Brad, I personally use a putty SSH tunnel on my laptop-with-wifi, but that is an application level tunnel - you can only encrypt/tunnel one TCP port per tunnel, so I just use it to access my web proxy... everything loaded by my browser is encrypted.

I'm sure there's some sort of VPN solution which would be able to encrypt everything seamlessly, with a couple of 'nix boxes at each end quietly doing their thing. I looked into VPNs a while ago but gave up because the SSH solution - in my specific case - was easier. :)