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Sharing My DSL over 6miles

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BlakkIce

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i know i need a cannon, does anyone have any experience with this, see me and my GF use Directvinternet which is going under and im looking into a new ISPand tonight i got this great idea of why dont i get a super fast connection and share it with her she live 5.1 miles south west of me, whats the best way to do this securely and inexpensively
 
In order to use any kind of reasonably-priced gear, you need line-of-sight to her place. Do you have this?

- G
 
Dry pair is you landline solution.

$600 bucks but fast as hell.



As for wireless, you can get a Cisco Radio Wireless AP.


$1k though
 
Search back. I know there is a website linked that sells industrial-caliber equipment at semi-inexpensive prices.


A mile is doable... even with a pringles container...


5 miles is gonna cost ya though
 
Call HDCom and ask them. They sell a bunch of aftermarket antennas and wireless stuff. Tell them what you want to do. Advice is free.
 
Few months ago I saw a web page of a guy that bridged two WAP11 over 4miles.

It was a Graduate Scholl project. In order to achieve the distance he had to build two towers, and use special equipment to align two highly directional Antennae.

In order to achieve such a distance you need highly directional Antennae, but due to the distance there is a problem how to adjust the positioning of the Antennae so that the signal will not get lost in space.

Unfortunately, I lost the address.
 
I think 6 miles is just too far to share...cost wise at least. You'd be better off cost wise each getting DSL
 
"It was a Graduate Scholl project. In order to achieve the distance he had to build two towers"

No doubt about it. The exception would be if one of the sites was elevated WELL above the other site. At 5 miles your looking at roughly 60-80 towers feet on each side, assuming level topography on both sides. The guy did say one house was higher than the other but he best live on the side of a pretty big hill or she down in a nice size valley. You'd still probably have to deal with trees and fresnel zone issues. 5 Miles is not really a project that can be accomplished very easily. Not generally anyway. Mileage varies.

To the original poster. If you have a GPS you can get your elevation at both sites. Find that out and post back with Lat/Long and elevation and I'll see if I can get a guy with some topography software to run some numbers.
 
thanks guys looks as if ill just be getting 2 different DSL lines for me and her but it was a nice thought, my dad works at fermi lab and they had a cisco wireless network setup and I asked the tech how far the gun worked and he said 5 miles and thats what gave me the idea maybe ill just setup a pringles can and play with that and see what i can do, it would be a fun project
 
the gun?

I installed Cisco 802.11b hardware for the life of the product line and never heard that term before. What is that in reference to?

As to the distance. 2.4 Ghz AP at 100 mW with a good directional antenna will go alot farther than 5 miles, but certainly not at ground level. No chance whatsoever. Well, unless you create some elaborate bounce/reflection setup and have something juicy at the other end.
 
maybe gun was the wrong name but heres a link to what im talking about "the GUN" and this is the view from the Window so i guess that makes a difference oh well maybe ill provide internet acess to my neighboorhood
 
Yagi Directional antenna. It'd just be called a "Yagi". I would guess in the 7-11 dBi range. Interesting way to mount it. Must took some time getting the mount holes right after panning.
 
Originally posted by: bsr
Can you run a 5 mile cat5 cable ?? possibly with amplifier ..... LMAO
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The limit for cat 5 cable w/out a repeater is 300 feet... considering there's 5280 feet in a mile, that'd be a crapload of repeaters...

wireless solutions would work, but it'd be expensive and what would be the point? the money invested could just as well be put toward another dsl account or some form of internet access.
 
Originally posted by: Paulson<br
The limit for cat 5 cable w/out a repeater is 300 feet... considering there's 5280 feet in a mile, that'd be a crapload of repeaters...

wireless solutions would work, but it'd be expensive and what would be the point? the money invested could just as well be put toward another dsl account or some form of internet access.
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Probably need something like fiber optic for a landline over that kind of distance.
 
Buy yourself a T-1 line from the phone company -- a few thousand bucks and you will be able to communicate directly with her.
 
Dry pair is you landline solution.
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I have that feeling that he doesn't own 5.1 miles of land
to do it. It might be a little problematic to run it through
someone else's land 🙂


Buy yourself a T-1 line from the phone company -- a few thousand bucks and you will be able to communicate directly with her.
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A few thousand bucks for the installation and about a thousand bucks
in monthly fees. I think, the decision is obvious 🙂

His only solution is wireless. But the distance is not what we can call "short".
 
Try this place for cheap antennas.

I'm currently a wireless setup from my house to my friends house about a a mile away using two 14dbi flat panel directional antenna's. And they both cost just a little over $100. They even have 24dbi antennas for only $75.link.. I had a clear line of sight though plus both antenna are way above the roof on poles (cables are extra). Ihave a D-link DI-614+ router ad my friend has the D-link AP900+ access point. For your desired distance, I guess its doable but the key here is CLEAR line of sight. The slightest tree branch or any obstruction would cut down on your range.
 
Masted antennas with a house as the base isn't going to make a 5 mile shot. Even if the houses are two or three stories. He can try. One thing I've learned over the years of doing radio links is expect the unexpected. The problem is that it would be a decent out of pocket expense to try something that has virtually no chance of succeeding without getting elaborate or very lucky. Like using a water tower as a reflector. That's been done and is do-able is the variables are right. Bottom line is a 5 mile link needs towers, or like in the case that he has posted pictures of, another tall structure like a several story building, grain elevator, water tower etc... You can get away with one side being near ground but that just makes the other side have to be that much taller.
 
This tread is turning into a real saga.

I think that ktwebb is trying to say that the Planet is a curved (it was discovered 700 years ago that Earth is not flat). Few miles starts to count.

On the issue of Antennae.

Unfortunately each manufacture of Wireless Hardware has his own view about the plug used for external Antenna.

Most OEM comes with one or two standards, it is not uncommon that you can find a nice OEM antenna for $40-$80, and then pay another $40-$80 for pigtail extension coax etc.

Before you buy an Access Point, research all of the components and make a global decision.
 
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