Q: My parents have a garage thats about 600 feet away from the house and my dad want a computer in the garage. Sounds simple, but the garage is on the other side of the road so I can not wire it. I can set up an antenna on the exterior of the house and the garage so they face each other and there are no trees, buildings, ect. in the road. Is it possible to wire the current technology (like under $ 250 total) to span an open air gap of about 600 feet?
Re:I've used this hawking bad-boy to reach 350ft
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=60&ProdID=280
The AP did have a directional antenna.
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hg2412p.php
Installed on a wrt54G V3 with dd-wrt firmware.
Re:no kidding.
That was an interesting read, thanks for the link.
Re:you could try this cutie
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=58&ProdID=152
Re:Originally posted by: guy
600ft… 200m… sounds a long way for standard kit. I have heard of people getting several km with heavily modified gear though – check it out. (http://wireless.gumph.org/articles/longrangelink.html)
The basic Idea is to get routers with good radios in them, boost the transmit power with 3rd party firmware, and build some good antennas. A couple of old sat dishes would do nicely, or you could build a couple of waveguides, or yagis. More info here. (http://www.wlan.org.uk/antenna-page.html)
wow. that was incredibly informative.
Re:Entry Level with clear line of sight and directional Antenna should work.
Buy two Access Point (about $60 each) connect one access point with running cable to an empty switch port at the source Network, and place it in a place that is Facing the Garage
Take the second Access Point and put it in a spot at the Garage that faces the first Access Point. Use a cable to connect the Access point to an available switch port at the Garage Network.
The Access point has to be configured as Network Bridges.
If you do not get a signal at the second Access Point or the signal is too weak replace the source Access Point?s Antenna with a directional Antenna.
If it is still weak, replace the Antenna of the second Access Point with a directional Antenna too.
As for Antenna.
There is a lot of Home made gimmicks and few of them even work.
However ones you are done with buying parts (cable plugs adaptor etc.) you are not very far in price from buying a good commercially made Antenna.
Example, http://www.cantenna.com
In general, Wirelessly Bridging Small Network. (http://www.ezlan.net/bridging.html)
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Re:600ft… 200m… sounds a long way for standard kit. I have heard of people getting several km with heavily modified gear though – check it out. (http://wireless.gumph.org/articles/longrangelink.html)
The basic Idea is to get routers with good radios in them, boost the transmit power with 3rd party firmware, and build some good antennas. A couple of old sat dishes would do nicely, or you could build a couple of waveguides, or yagis. More info here. (http://www.wlan.org.uk/antenna-page.html)
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