wireless internet sharing across two houses

[feelingshorter]

Ok so basicaly im on 56k, want to leech internet from a friend..any ideas on how this can be done? i've looked online for some expensive expensive routers but hey dont say anything about the range. And those 1 mile routers is only in open field. So does anyone know if its possible for me to leech internet using a wireless router connected from a friend's house 500 feet away? Not only that there is a elevated rail road from my house to his. I planned on paying as much as it cost for the router that can do this and i also planned on getting a USB 802.11g reciever for my computer.

The only other alternative is illegaly. Meaning reprograming a DOCSIS 2 modem to the same IP address as my friend's and plug it in and BAM, free internet (yes this is how its done...if say you wanted free Comcast). But as you all already know, its illegal and i do have morals some what. I'm alreayd paying for cable TV so if i wanted it, i could get it...but im afraid of legal action from Comcast tho i have friends that do this without getting into trouble (im not ignorant, they CAN EASILY EASILY detect you for duplicate IP address as easy as they can for uncapping your modem). Im trying to avoid this route as much as possible, so help is appreciated. Im looking for someone that tried this and worked. I dont want a "this might work if you buy this 200++ dollar router" and it ends up not working.

 

[rmrf]

you could hook a big ass antenna up to your friends router, then get a bridge for your house, and hook another big ass antenna up, run the cable from the bridge into the switch part of a wireless router, and you should have wireless for anywhere in your house.

I have not tried this, but in theory it should work. Let a few more people voice their opinions on the subject.

 

[Fardringle]

You mentioned that there is an elevated railway between your houses. Can you stand on the roof of your house and see his house, or does the railway completely block line of sight?

If you can't get line of sight between your houses, you can't use a direct wireless connection between them.

If you can get line of sight between the houses, then unidirectional (dish) antennas mounted on the roof of each house and carefully tuned to point directly at each other would provide connectivity as long as you have a router at his house and a wireless adapter at your house that are capable of utilizing the external antennas. I believe that Orinoco's wireless PC cards can do this but have not ever used them myself so I am not certain...

 

[JackMDS]

Sharing DSL Internet connection with another Household might be less detectable than the other means that you mentioned, but it is just illigal as the others.

You have already Cable service get yourselft Cable Interent.

:sun:

 

[feelingshorter]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Sharing DSL Internet connection with another Household might be less detectable than the other means that you mentioned, but it is just illigal as the others.

You have already Cable service get yourselft Cable Interent.

:sun:

Thats what i was thinking but im still afraid to get illegal cable internet. And if i stand on my roof, i cant see his house, so i guess im screwd.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Sharing DSL Internet connection with another Household might be less detectable than the other means that you mentioned, but it is just illigal as the others.

You have already Cable service get yourselft Cable Interent.

:sun:

Thats what i was thinking but im still afraid to get illegal cable internet. And if i stand on my roof, i cant see his house, so i guess im screwd.

You probably did not understand my post.

I meant get yourself a Ligall Cable Service, like any other regular person.

:sun:

 

[Fardringle]

What JackMDS was implying is that if you want broadband at your house, you should buy service for your house. If you know it's illegal and you're afraid of getting caught for doing something illegal, that should give you a pretty good idea of what you need to do.

Even if it wasn't against the ISP policy to share a connection (which it is most of the time), you're not going to be able to share that connection wirelessly if you don't have line of sight between the houses.


edit: Jack beat me to it, so just pretend I wasn't here.

 

[feelingshorter]

well that was an obvious suggestion that i overlooked since i thought yall would understand that if i had the money for it i woulda done taht already. Did i mention i have the 14 dollars a month cable from comcast? Not the fancy expensive cable tv....

 

[foxkm]

You realize that the cost for low-loss antenna cable, 2.4ghz antenna, wireless bridging access points, and a tower (all times 2) to connect you and your house (need line of sight) is going to be a pretty penny. You will probably be paying 1000's of dollars for the equiptment to perform this feat. Might as well realize that buying broadband going to be cheaper in the short run.

 

[customcoms]

To begin with, this feat should be easily possible. 500 feet is NOTHING. Homemade $5 Cantenna's go around 1500 feet in a line of sight connection. Put one on each end, get a now dirt cheap wireless b card and your set. Otherwise, run some Cat5 cable, its around $70 for 1000 feet at tiger. Also, if you buy commerical antenna's, two for $300 and can go 1.5 MILES. I think you would be good even without direct line of site. I am thinking about going 1 mile, through some woods, my best bet is going to be modifying an old DirectTV satellite on each end. Also, I don't see why comcast will have a problem. State some laws regulating this. As I see it, it is considered networking, which is allowed and SUPPORTED by comcast. Its not like you are powering the entire neighborhood w/ one cable connection. And, if the equipment is on YOUR house, they can't touch it, encrypt the connection and they have no access to your "network". I say go for it

 

[feelingshorter]

yea customcoms thats what i was thinking. I've herd of it going up to 5 miles (thats what a friend told me, and his dad works with computers). Im just afraid the line of sight might be a problem but i guess i mind as well test out the theory.