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long range wireless success stories?

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onelin

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...does anyone have any experience with this? I'm curious about long range wireless networking.

I'm somewhere between 1-3 miles from friends who are able to get DSL, whereas I cannot. (nor cable, and satellite sucks) Wireless net would certainly be a nice compromise, although it looks rather pricey and the antennas I see sort of imply line of sight (which would not be possible)
 
put up 2.4 and 5 Ghz links for several years. At a mile, no line of sight.......no link. Sorry. If you have a tall structure that you both do have line of sight you might try a point to multipoint setup, with the parent bridge being at the structure. Something like a water tower. You could also try to use something like a water tower as a passive reflector. I have heard of people saying they have done something similar. I'd have to see it with my own eyes to believe it but I suppose it's possible if the distance were not great to each link. The affordable wireless solutions are line of sight, bottom line.
 
Am interested in setting up a wireless network between two PCs -- about 1/2 mile distant -- would be line-of-sight. Is this doable? What would I need?
 
Thanks for the responses. It looks like cable is ~2 months away...and the antennas I looked at were $300-700 a pop and still wanting line of sight I think. It's still interesting stuff though... 🙂

Especially the home-made ones! cool.
 
You can get directionals with enough gain for a 3 mile link for under 100 bucks. The problem is, you'd still have to elevate your antennas. Unless you live in the desert and one side of the link was significantly higher in relation to sea level then the other. Antennas for WAN links are WAY down the list of significant factors in a micowave point to point link.
 
There's a poor kid on my street with not even a telephone (Just like me when I was his age, 16). I can't foot the bill for sharing my Internet connection with him even at less than $100 for two directional antennas as I have already given/loaned him a TON of computer equipment just to have a working piece-of-crap computer (Plus, I'd need to buy hardware capable of taking an external antenna)! He lives about 5-houses away up a steep hill but with long network cable and Power-over-Ethernet we can get line-of-sight. Can high-end normal antennas possibly reach this distance? Think I can find anyone willing to donate something?

My two Belkin PCMCIA cards (One in a PCI adapter) wouldn't work in AdHoc even less than a yard from eachother. They were better when operating with my draft-802.11g access point, but I could still simply block the signal with my hand or knee on accident and get disconncted CONSTANTLY within the same room as the AP. With 11g-to-11g AP, everything seems decent (I still can't roam anywhere in the trailer, but I can pick it up outside). Perhaps there's alot of interference in my area? I've found the best signal strength on channel 3 through trial and error.
 
There's a poor kid on my street with not even a telephone (Just like me when I was his age, 16). I can't foot the bill for sharing my Internet connection with him even at less than $100 for two directional antennas as I have already given/loaned him a TON of computer equipment just to have a working piece-of-crap computer (Plus, I'd need to buy hardware capable of taking an external antenna)! He lives about 5-houses away up a steep hill but with long network cable and Power-over-Ethernet we can get line-of-sight. Can high-end normal antennas possibly reach this distance? Think I can find anyone willing to donate something?

My two Belkin PCMCIA cards (One in a PCI adapter) wouldn't work in AdHoc even less than a yard from eachother. They were better when operating with my draft-802.11g access point, but I could still simply block the signal with my hand or knee on accident and get disconncted CONSTANTLY within the same room as the AP. With 11g-to-11g AP, everything seems decent (I still can't roam anywhere in the trailer, but I can pick it up outside). Perhaps there's alot of interference in my area? I've found the best signal strength on channel 3 through trial and error.
 
There's a poor kid on my street with not even a telephone (Just like me when I was his age, 16). I can't foot the bill for sharing my Internet connection with him even at less than $100 for two directional antennas as I have already given/loaned him a TON of computer equipment just to have a working piece-of-crap computer (Plus, I'd need to buy hardware capable of taking an external antenna)! He lives about 5-houses away up a steep hill but with long network cable and Power-over-Ethernet we can get line-of-sight. Can high-end normal antennas possibly reach this distance? Think I can find anyone willing to donate something?

My two Belkin PCMCIA cards (One in a PCI adapter) wouldn't work in AdHoc even less than a yard from eachother. They were better when operating with my draft-802.11g access point, but I could still simply block the signal with my hand or knee on accident and get disconncted CONSTANTLY within the same room as the AP. With 11g-to-11g AP, everything seems decent (I still can't roam anywhere in the trailer, but I can pick it up outside). Perhaps there's alot of interference in my area? I've found the best signal strength on channel 3 through trial and error.
 
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