interface a micro to wireless modem(ethernet)

• Oct 19, 2003

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Hi

Is it possible to interface an embedded board(include a microcontroller like as AVR ) to ultima 3 modem from wi---lan company?

This wireless modems are working at 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz and thier interface port is ethernet 100mbps.The range of this modems is up to 75KM and the antenna is integrated with it.


Please specify the methods for send/receive data with them by a microcontroller system.

 

• Oct 19, 2003

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You must be wrong - range of 75Km ?
The interface should be a straight forward 802.3 MAC - I presume....
[e.g. - the modem should look like a PHY]

 

• Oct 19, 2003

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sure .. most of wlan modems offers transparent ip connectivity iow ip bridge so try any eth project e.g. ethernut or web51. i also would doubt about range ... espacialy with integrated antennas and allowed erp 20dbm

 

• Oct 19, 2003

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With 100 M data rate, the range is more likely to be 75 m best case maximum. 802.11 devices with 10 M data rate and 10 dBm of power rarely go 75 m except if they are on two building tops with no obstructions between them.

 

• Oct 20, 2003

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you can have severel km link but you need to follow some conditions:
direct visinity
externel antennas
a lot of erp ;0)
i saw hop with 26 bdi antennas with distance abt 7km in 2.4ghz 802.11b (10mbps), of cause you have +46dbm erp which is much much more than allowed

 

• Oct 20, 2003

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at 2.4 GHz the pathloss for 1 km is about 99dB, doubling the distance the loss increase by 6 dB. So for the 75 km the loss should be about 141-147 dB. 75 km is a bit more. In my opinion with the legal ERP and 20-30 dBi antennas is not quite feasible.

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• Oct 20, 2003

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You can find more info at w*w.wilan.com about ultima 3 modems.They have pdf on their modems.

But my aim is not range,I want to know is it possible to interface a microcontroller with them and send/receive data with that wireless modems?How?

 

• Oct 20, 2003

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They claim 10/100 BaseT data connection. They claim that this product operates on 802.16 protocols. That should give you information on how to make the system work.

Their up to range figures are for free space. Any products that are on buildings will be much more limited. Ground wave is highly attenuative at these frequencies.

 

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once again .. you can use any ip stack project with mcu ... you have to send either tcp or upd packet form your first mcu board to ip adress of your other mcu board. the wireless modems will do the rest for you .. they will bridge your ip networks ...

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• Oct 20, 2003

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cancel said:

you can have severel km link but you need to follow some conditions:
direct visinity
externel antennas
a lot of erp ;0)
i saw hop with 26 bdi antennas with distance abt 7km in 2.4ghz 802.11b (10mbps), of cause you have +46dbm erp which is much much more than allowed

Click to expand...

Ive done a link of 40km with a 24dbm dish and a yagi uda, 2.4ghz, 802.11b 11Mb with 50-60% quality !!

I was using the Linksys Wireless bridge on both ends !!


asena 8)

 

• Oct 22, 2003

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to asena:

i used linksys also .. not problem for longer distances also .. but i needed very high reliability ... good advise: linksys is switching to slower spped too early .. iow it has still good signal but decides to decrease speed .. so disable auto fallback ;0)

 

• Oct 22, 2003

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Is there wireless modem with 10mbps speed similar to wilan for long ranges?(above 15 Km)?(do not mension to authorization for using)

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• Oct 23, 2003

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sure .. you can use booster (pa) for signal amplification ... look for e.g. linksys page wsb24