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Please Help! Need help going thru REINFORCED CONCRETE

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Biggs

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I live in an apartment bldg w/ my dad. He has a dsl line that I'd like to use. He lives on the 3rd floor, I live on the 4th floor. I would estimate that we have 150 ft separating us. The floor/celing and walls are made of reinforced concrete.

My dad currently has a Di-524, so this is the setup I'm thinking of:

1. Buy another Di-524 for my apartment
2. Install a DWL-M60AT 6dbi antenna on EACH of the routers.

Would this yield any significant gain?
 
No

what you will need is a repeater not a router,

like a dwl-g810 or dwl-g800ap

and that antenna hopefully it will work, but ifs its reinforced concrete GOOD LUCK 🙂

 
Do you both have windows on the same side of the building? If so, how about an antenna out the window?
 
I can't use a repeater because there is no "midpoint". The only place I can place the repeater is in front of my front door but then it's only 10 or 12 feet from my router. So it's not really "midpoint".

The windows are on opposite sides of the building.
 
I would try to buy a Returnable (in case it does not work) Powerline Homeplug.
You need two; one goes to the source Router and the power line, the second goes to your power line and a switch for your computers.
If the two of you are on the same side of the Building Power Transformer, it should work.

:sun:
 
If you live on top of eachother, might be easier to place both antennaes outside, accessable through window, if you can look out a window and see your dad's window.
 
Save your money and effort, it ain't gonna work.

2.4 GHz can barely (or not at all) penetrate drywall, let alone reinforced concrete (or any other kind of concrete). 150 feet through several (like ~a dozen) layers of concrete, NFW, it ain't gonna make it.

You are also probably bound by a lease that prohibits hanging anything out the window on any but the most temporary of circumstances.

The power line networking is probably not gonna happen either, the likelyhood of both of you being that far apart and being on the same phase off of the transformer is minimal. The corrective solution to that would probably be unacceptable to the aparement owners/managers (bridge the transformers).

You're hosed, give up. Get your own connection.

Sorry.


FWIW

Scott
 
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