Sharing WIFI with neighbor.

[Jwyatt]

My neighbor/friend lives in the house behind me. They are on a different street, and the cable co will not offer them interenet. I offered to share mine with him.

How can we setup a router or use his PC to share my wifi inside of his home. He has 3 PCs and they need thier own router. I would like to keep it seperate from my network, but im having problems finding the right item to connect him with. He can connect with one PC that is at the back of his house, but the others are scattered throughout.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Cooky]

I hate to point out that what you want to do is probably prohibited by terms and conditions set by your ISP.

Theoratically though, you'd want to set up two wireless AP's in bridge mode (or WDS) between the two houses.

 

[nweaver]

look for wireless bridges with external antenna's. Setup his router in your house, wired to your router.

 

[marulee]

Originally posted by: Jwyatt
My neighbor/friend lives in the house behind me. They are on a different street, and the cable co will not offer them interenet. I offered to share mine with him.

How can we setup a router or use his PC to share my wifi inside of his home. He has 3 PCs and they need thier own router. I would like to keep it seperate from my network, but im having problems finding the right item to connect him with. He can connect with one PC that is at the back of his house, but the others are scattered throughout.

Any help is appreciated.

SSID and the encryption settings is the very first thing (login to router page using '192.168.1.1' on the browser)

Cannot pickup the signal from other location,

Extend the wireless signal is the first thing! (on your configuration page)

Then modify the other wireless performances as well. (drop the transmission rates, beacon interval and preamble cyclic redundancy check in order to have a stable connectivity!)

Still an issue, change the channel!

Failed... no luck!


and now.. GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: marulee

Then modify the other wireless performances as well. (drop the transmission rates, beacon interval and preamble cyclic redundancy check in order to have a stable connectivity!)

Please, for the love of all that is 802.11, stop posting this crap! changing beacon interal, transmission rates, preamble, and CRC is NOT going to make your connection more stable, it's more likely to turn it the other way.

 

[ktwebb]

Well I cannot speak to the SOHO stuff but with higher end gear, if the connection was iffy at the highest rate, then bringing it down, in our case long ago when I was setting up WWAN links, taking it down to 5.5 if we didn't have enough juice for a solid 11Mb connection actually did work. This was a trial and error methodology. Nothing scientific.

The rest of it I agree. Suggesting to blindly go in and start fudging around with settings, when clearly the fellow has no real sense of what those changes do, is a recipe for more advice. The next time it will be "Instructions on defaulting your Access Point"

And even the rate editing. May not help at all but in my case it was actually a solution on more than one occasion.

 

[nweaver]

Any modern device should auto fall back without issues.

As a background, I have done lots of enterprise (cisco) wireless, and help out part time with a small (67 subs) WISP, max sub is about 6 miles out

 

[ktwebb]

My experience was with Cisco gear as well. Lots of it. Over about a 4 year period. That's basically all I did for that time. WLANs and WWAN's.

This was however 97-01. 802.11b Bridges for the WAN shots. Well, some WesternMux when we needed the bandwidth. Cisco may have stepped up. In those days, they were a name and that was about it. Clearly better than anything you could buy off the shelf though back then, especially early, there was no "off the shelf" wireless equipment. But I digress.

My response was not questioning your experience. Nor what "should" be the expectation of the equipment used. Anecdotal, personal experience over a fairly wide span with many, many, many point to point and point to multipoint links.

 

[Lemon law]

Once you get things up and running beter implement some security so only you and your neighbor can log in---or your wireless connection is going to become a wi-fi hotspot for everyone on the block.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: ktwebb
My experience was with Cisco gear as well. Lots of it. Over about a 4 year period. That's basically all I did for that time. WLANs and WWAN's.

This was however 97-01. 802.11b Bridges for the WAN shots. Well, some WesternMux when we needed the bandwidth. Cisco may have stepped up. In those days, they were a name and that was about it. Clearly better than anything you could buy off the shelf though back then, especially early, there was no "off the shelf" wireless equipment. But I digress.

My response was not questioning your experience. Nor what "should" be the expectation of the equipment used. Anecdotal, personal experience over a fairly wide span with many, many, many point to point and point to multipoint links.

I didn't think you were questioning, this was just for folks reading this and wondering...there are some folks posting right now with total FUD for info, I'm working hard debunk some of their fud

 

[Jwyatt]

Thanks for all the input.

Can i use my existing router and add an access point at his house. From the AP have it connected to the WAN side of a router? OR do i need an AP on my end, and an AP on his end configured in bridge mode?

thx

 

[nweaver]

it depends on the AP on his end.

The advantage of putting one on each end, is you can try and get line of sight, which will improve reliability

 

[skyking]

it does help to have a matched set of gear running WDS. Buffalo has them, and there is always the wrt54 and dd-wrt firmware.