I am looking for some help with a problem - Any advice would be great
Background:
We run a small family company from our house. My brother is moving in a few doors down. I want to set up the network to be able to share company data since this would be much easier, faster and more reliable then setting up a VPN.
THIS WILL NOT BE USED TO SHARE INTERNET
What I plan to do is have both houses on the same ip address ranges.
house 1:
router/gateway/dhcp server 192.168.1.1
DHCP IP range 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.50
DNS 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.5
(our internal office server is on 192.168.1.5)
house 2:
router/gateway/dhcp server 192.168.1.100
DHCP IP range 192.168.1.110 - 192.168.1.150
DNS 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.5
My thought is that setting it up like this will allow each house to operate separately for 90% of what goes on. Yet since they each use the same IP range, they will also be able to communicate with each other without sharing internet access. Also, this will allow all computers regardless of which house they are in to connect to the office server.
The two houses are about 200ft from each other and have good (not great) line of sight, though it is a fairly wooded area. Each house has its own internet service. Also, we are not hosting any types of external services (http, email, ftp, etc). Because we are only sharing internal data, this does not violate terms of services with our respective ISPs.
While i really wish i could connect them with a cat5 cable, but there doesn't seem to be a feasible way to do that. Connecting via a wireless connection is probably my best bet. I have a wireless access point in the closest corner of my to theirs and it almost makes it all the way.
What hardware would be best to connect our two houses in this scenario? I would prefer to have the fastest connection possible as we do a lot of graphic based work.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Background:
We run a small family company from our house. My brother is moving in a few doors down. I want to set up the network to be able to share company data since this would be much easier, faster and more reliable then setting up a VPN.
THIS WILL NOT BE USED TO SHARE INTERNET
What I plan to do is have both houses on the same ip address ranges.
house 1:
router/gateway/dhcp server 192.168.1.1
DHCP IP range 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.50
DNS 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.5
(our internal office server is on 192.168.1.5)
house 2:
router/gateway/dhcp server 192.168.1.100
DHCP IP range 192.168.1.110 - 192.168.1.150
DNS 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.5
My thought is that setting it up like this will allow each house to operate separately for 90% of what goes on. Yet since they each use the same IP range, they will also be able to communicate with each other without sharing internet access. Also, this will allow all computers regardless of which house they are in to connect to the office server.
The two houses are about 200ft from each other and have good (not great) line of sight, though it is a fairly wooded area. Each house has its own internet service. Also, we are not hosting any types of external services (http, email, ftp, etc). Because we are only sharing internal data, this does not violate terms of services with our respective ISPs.
While i really wish i could connect them with a cat5 cable, but there doesn't seem to be a feasible way to do that. Connecting via a wireless connection is probably my best bet. I have a wireless access point in the closest corner of my to theirs and it almost makes it all the way.
What hardware would be best to connect our two houses in this scenario? I would prefer to have the fastest connection possible as we do a lot of graphic based work.
Thanks in advance for any help.
