GaryCat

My Father-in-law and his daughter live literally across the road from each other, probably less than 50m between them. Would it be possible for them to use wireless networking to share a broadband connection? What is the range like through walls and outdoors?

Alternatively, is there a cheap line-of-sight solution?

Gary.

ChrisB

Line of sight between the houses I guess?

Bung an access point in the window of the house with broadband and you should be fine.

Can you can various antennas for external applications but I would expect them to be overkill for a 50m.

Also, given that the bottleneck will be the 'Net connection, you could drop the speed down on the wireless to 5.5Mbps to increase the range.

Fig

Check out the T&Cs of the ISP - you'll probably find doing this is not allowed. (Not that this will prevent the connection from working.)

Fig

Ooops double post

[Edited by Fig - 12/21/2002 10:03:19 PM]

Fig

Double oops, triple post

[Edited by Fig - 12/21/2002 10:03:38 PM]

ChrisB

And given a router with NAT, they'll never know that you are doing it...

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

But also also make sure that the neighbours don't come in on a "hotspot"

ChrisB

Or at least charge them for it

{Assuming you have the correct license to run a paid service in the ISM band from the RTA}

[Edited by ChrisB - 12/22/2002 1:42:11 AM]