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bc11

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home wireless network

Hi, my friend has internet service at home which is about 2 1/2 blocks from downtown of a small town. I would estimate the range to be a 1000 feet or less. There is a small restaurant uptown where he drinks coffee and eats his meals as well as the legion lounge where he may have a beer occasionally.

He has internet service at home now with a desktop. He wants to buy a laptop with the necessary access so he can carry his computer uptown to the restaurant. The restaurant and legion lounge are not internet capable and have no plans to do so. He would be tying into access his home network and the internet from the laptop at the restaurant.

There is no apparent place on the street in between to put in any bridges. The restaurant owner is friendly enough that she may allow him to install some device at the restaurant but because of trees in the area there would be definite LOS problems. If there was an inexpensive device that could be installed at the restaurant as a last resort, that may be an option.

He would also like to go to a friend's house and access the internet there but I'm not sure anything will range that far. We are talking about small town Kansas where the whole town is about 10 blocks square.

From what I have read so far, some routers/access points may range up to 1000' depending upon the antenna and interference. Any suggestions as to which of these have the best range would be helpful.

Also from what I have read, the limiting factor may be the range back from the laptop which would kill the whole deal. Any suggestions here would be helpful.

Thanks let me know if I need any more specifics.


Anav
Sarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
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Dartmouth, NS

You need to establish an LOS connection. This could be done by the following.

a. a pair of directional antennas
(nothing too fancy, some directional outdoor patch would work) - for the far away friends house, would probably need low end parabolic antennas.
b. a pair of ethernet adaptor bridges, one at either end to attach to the antennas, one to tx the internet signal the other to rcve it and pass it on to either a switch, or An AP to retransmit wireless. YOu could also get a dual radio unit here instead one to receive and one to retx.

The important thing is to get the adaptors close to the antennas for minimal losses.

The same thing can be done to his friends house!!
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