Yeah, I've got some long-distance wireless gear on my roof. It's not mine, though, so I know very little about it.

The antennas simply connect into the antenna jack on the Lucent PCMCIA cards and everything else is just like a regular Wireless connection. They're wire dish antennas, I don't know who makes them or what.

The trick is that the cable running from the roof antenna down to the box with the PCMCIA card in it has to be a special kind of beefy low-loss antenna cable, with a special kind of pigtail connector to fit the card.

I've also (back in the days before 802.11b) set up a building-to-building wireless connection of about 1/2 mile. Things I learned from that:

- Antenna pointing is important (and tricky).
- Do not store the wireless routing gear in the hot attic or it will die at 2pm every day starting in the spring months.