Re: Inexpensive point-to-point solution needed
- From: "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:28:33 -0500
JJ wrote:
I'm a bit of a newbie to this topic so please excuse my ignorance.
We live out in the boonies - no cable, no DSL - only internet access
is via satellite. For various reasons (not the least of which is
cost) we do not have a satellite hook-up ourselves. However, our
neighbors just up the hill (about 300' through the trees) do get
satellite internet. On occasion, we can actually get a weak signal
off of their wireless (with their leave) - but only certain dell
laptops are able to even pick it up (my <1 yr old macbook pro
cannot). And even when we can get a signal, it's sometimes just as
slow as dial-up.
We were hoping to set up some kind of point-to-point bridge between
the two houses so that we could share the satellite internet and the
cost. At one time, I tried just getting a wireless router, went over
to their house and set it up as part of the network - but back at our
house, it just didn't work.
So, I'm hoping one of you can point me at an inexpensive solution to
set up some kind of directional wireless bridge between the two houses
so that we can extend the wireless network to our house in a way that
will be functional, reliable and easy to set up. Searching around in
the internet, I only seem to come across solutions geared towards
larger entities, costing thousands of $$. I'm looking for a solution
that would run only in the few hundreds of $$, if such exists.
Ideally, this would be a product that I could buy off the shelf
instead of something that I have to fashion myself - and something
that could be added on without any major changes to their current
system.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
-J
Just out of curiosity where do you live? (approx), in northern idaho i had
problem during the spring/summer with leaves on trees, and during the winter
with snow... Had a similar situation (rural, 10 acres, sat only at my place,
no cable or dsl) turned out the neighbor and i where on the same leg of a
power transformer and we were able to use powerline networking, and later
turned out that there where mountains nearby and skynet put a wireless node
on a mountain (a wisp) I was able to connect to it and lose the sat, able to
do voip (no nasty sat latency) and make free ld calls too (made sharing
expenses with the neighbor much easier, he had grandkids)
at any rate, costs nothing to click below and see if there is anything in
your area....
see http://www.onelasvegas.com/wireless/compare.html and click on your state
as for powerline networking, no idea if your power would be conducive to it,
but read about it here....
http://www.netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking.aspx?for=All
.
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