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Sharing Broadband via 802.11b

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Zach

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I live in a 30 unit apartment building, with both cinderblock walls and 4" concrete floors. I'm in the center of the building, the farthest apartment is radially maybe 200ft away, 20ft below.

What do you guys think, would it be possible to whore out my cable modem? What kind of range does hollow cinderblock and concrete allow?
 
You will get very poor range in an enviroment like that, maybe the floor below and above will get a signal, but only really close to you. No way it would reach 20ft below, and 200ft out. Concrete stops 2.4ghz pretty quickly.
 
Agreed. But you should be able to go out some amount. I can go through a coupla cinderblock walls with my connection, but it gets iffy.

Do you want to do this, though? You're opening up the network to others and will be constantly hassled about connections, WEP, throughput, etc. It'll be hard making this a paying proposition, imo.

Just my 2¢.
 
Well, I have a friend not too far away, and there's other people in the building with computers, so I was toying with the idea. Seems too pricey though.. but at $45/month for cable modems it makes sense to consolidate.
 
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