Share internet connection from one house to another

[dorfma05]

I'm looking at buying a house approximately 1/5th of a mile from my parents house. I was hoping to set up a network bridge so that I can grab internet from their house. It's mostly line of sight straight to the house with minimal obstructions (typical suburbia with half the distance being a church parking lot between the houses).

Any recommendations on how to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

None that would be cheaper than getting you own connection.

 

[lsv]

This is advertised at 1/4th of a mile. If you can find it somewhere with a good return or exchange policy you might be able to at least test it out.

That's the cheapest possible solution by the way.

 

[alizee]

Not sure how much this would be worth, like Magnus said, you may want to get your own connection. However, back when 802.11g was becoming popular, there were a lot of DIY antenna solutions called Cantennas. They were made with coffee cans and provided a pretty good unidirectional antenna. You would have to get at least one router with an external antenna port and either a wireless pci card or another router with external antenna ports. One cantenna in your parents house, one in yours. With 802.11n you may need multiple Cantennas on either side because 802.11n uses MIMO. Hope that helps.

 

[Nuwave]

Get a matching pair of one of these
http://ubnt.ca/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=36
preferably the 5Ghz. 60-75 bucks an end.

Mount those to a J poll like these http://ubnt.ca/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=15

run outdoor cable and have it lightning arrested. There you go as long as you have line of site you'll have a great wireless bridge.

 

[lsv]

Get a matching pair of one of these
http://ubnt.ca/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=36
preferably the 5Ghz. 60-75 bucks an end.

Mount those to a J poll like these http://ubnt.ca/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=15

run outdoor cable and have it lightning arrested. There you go as long as you have line of site you'll have a great wireless bridge.

Damn that is CHEAP. I kind of want a pair just to have.

 

[FrankSchwab]

I actually just bought a pair of those last week to solve a "how do I connect two offices on opposite sides of a parking lot" problem.

Frankly, it's excellent hardware for the price. It took me about an hour to figure out how to configure it for what I needed, I suction-cupped them onto the inside of the window in the two locations, and I was up and running. The devices have excellent site survey software in them, and controls out the wazoo. All configuration is done from a web page served by the device.

The only ding against these is that they only have a 100BaseT physical jack. Using 40 MHz of 5 GHz spectrum, I can easily create a link with a higher bandwidth than the physical jack is capable of, but that's mostly because my link is extremely short (~150 M).

If you want to maximize bandwidth, I might recommend their Nanobridge (http://ubnt.com/nanobridge). I don't have one, but it is (as I understand) exactly the same internals, simply that it's built into a small dish. It'll be a bit more difficult to install (precisely pointing the antenna will be required).

If all you're trying to do is leach a 10 Mbps internet connection, I'd go for the NanoStation, cause they just look sexy.

/frank