Some community wireless / WDS feasibility questions

[Stephen Ronan]

You can get this suitable POE device quite inexpensively:
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/.f?search=18V+PoE
The Keptel CG-1500 is a nice, inexpensive outdoor box but not quite 
ideal for this purpose, esp. if you're intent on saving as much as possible.
http://www.cabletvamps.com/enclosures.htm
Unfortunately, the Meraki Mini isn't certified for high-gain antennas, 
just up to 5 dbi omni. If you'd want to be using higher-gain antennas 
it'd be good to let the folks at Meraki know that as they plan future 
products.
 -  -Stephen ROnan


Fred Weston wrote:

>Meraki looks pretty interesting.  It looks like both the regular mini
>and outdoor mini support PoE, but only the outdoor version comes with
>their "non-802.3af" PoE dongle.  Anybody know how to build your own?
>It seems like it would be much more cost effective to buy the basic
>units and weatherproof them yourself, the only thing missing is that
>dongle.
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