how to network house to house?

[Boo Boo]

what is the easiest way to network one house to another?

i have highspeed wireless in one house and want to send the signal across the street to another house.

guessing 100 feet of street.

have a wireless router in one house.

do i need a ap at the other point of connection?

 

[nweaver]

not an AP, but a bridge.

If you have line of sight between Router/AP and bridge, you should be OK...a second story window would be the ideal location for both. If you have problems, then putting an outdoor bridge in a rootenna on a mast would probably help.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: nweaver
not an AP, but a bridge.

If you have line of sight between Router/AP and bridge, you should be OK...a second story window would be the ideal location for both. If you have problems, then putting an outdoor bridge in a rootenna on a mast would probably help.

oh god i saw the most ghetto bridge setup ive come across yet yesterday near kansas city

the wisp i work for bought this company last week, sends me out to re-connect a former customer in the service area.

"the old equipment is in the attic, switch them out to canopy and bring the old stuff home"

the AP is on a water tower just shy of a mile away, theres a couple of trees between the client and the ap unless youre just in the right spot on the roof. guess what the old equipment, *in the attic* was that they had aimed at this water tower?

done? give up?

it was a linksys wireless bridge, secured to a beam in this attic with zip-ties and staples. it had what ill guess is about a 4 or 5 dbi omni antenna on it. just up the same beam was stapled some wire mesh, 2 inches behind, but in line with the omni, and shaped into an arc to act as a reflector :disgust:

 

[JackMDS]

Wireless Bridging - http://www.ezlan.net/bridging

 

[Solema]

OP, I am doing exactly what you want to do.

I use two Linksys WRT54G's running DD-WRT. They are set up with WDS, and the second router is in my best friend's house across the street. His WRT54G acts as both a repeater and also as a bridge, so he has his desktop PC plugged into a LAN port on the router, and his laptops to the wireless. It works great and the price can't be beat, in the neighborhood of $50-$60 for each WRT54G (ver. 4 or earlier) or WRT54GS.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: nweaver
not an AP, but a bridge.

If you have line of sight between Router/AP and bridge, you should be OK...a second story window would be the ideal location for both. If you have problems, then putting an outdoor bridge in a rootenna on a mast would probably help.

oh god i saw the most ghetto bridge setup ive come across yet yesterday near kansas city

the wisp i work for bought this company last week, sends me out to re-connect a former customer in the service area.

"the old equipment is in the attic, switch them out to canopy and bring the old stuff home"

the AP is on a water tower just shy of a mile away, theres a couple of trees between the client and the ap unless youre just in the right spot on the roof. guess what the old equipment, *in the attic* was that they had aimed at this water tower?

done? give up?

it was a linksys wireless bridge, secured to a beam in this attic with zip-ties and staples. it had what ill guess is about a 4 or 5 dbi omni antenna on it. just up the same beam was stapled some wire mesh, 2 inches behind, but in line with the omni, and shaped into an arc to act as a reflector :disgust:

WAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[her209]

If speed isn't a requirement, set up a dial up server...

:laugh: