Are there WEATHERPROOF WiFi equipment maker? [radio signals] [fi equipment]
Q: I am looking for a WAP insttall on the ouside of a house about 15Ft from seawater. I live in Florida and have seen the corrosive salt air can put on electronic equipment.
I am wondering if there is “off the shelf” components and I coul. If not, then I think the installation of a wall or ceiling and put a plastic shield around it. There are materials that are better in the show through radio signals?
Re:Here are a couple quick renderings of a CISCO 1200 WAP in a Hoffman NEM12 Enclosure, Mounted on 1" DIA Shocks.
Cover Off (http://cyberfrogs.net/downloads/wap_1.jpg)
Cover On (http://cyberfrogs.net/downloads/wap_2.jpg)
Re:There is stuff for Outdoor Wireless.
Most of it is manufacture specific. I.e. fits a certain brand.
Example: Proxim Delivers Easiest to Install High-Capacity Outdoor Wireless Bridge Available (http://www.farallon.com/about/pressroom/pressrelease/pr2002-09-04.html)
I saw in the past some home brew boxes for WAP11, but lost the links.
Search Google.com for the term Outdoor Wireless, you will find a lot of links. Most are not relevant, but may be you will get lucky.
Home made POE here: PoE (Power Over Ethernet) (http://www.nycwireless.net/poe/)]
Re:Thanks for the info, N4S, I may do a POE WAP like your other post and put that inside am enclosure.
Re:at work we built ruggedized enclosures for cisco equipment all the time for the navy. you can get a cheap nema12 enclosure and mount the WAP inisde of that.
Re:As long as its not metal don't worry about the signal getting through.
Go to your nearest electrical supply store and get a nema box that will hold the equipment, then you can mount what you want outside and not worry about. My advice though would be to spend the extra money on the appropriate length and size of lmr cable and run the radio inside. Its alot easier to reset it if you don't have to climb a tower. Be sure to read up on how to properly weatherproof antenna connections. If you need cable I recommend fab-corp (http://www.fab-corp.com/), they'll sell custom cut and terminated lengths if you need.
Re:How about just putting the antenna outside.
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