Long Range WIFI & Internet

[lanichol]

There has been some discussion on getting high speed internet in remote areas or down the street. I am looking at the point to point bridge from my office in town across from a fiber connection, to the house 3 miles in the country. They claim line of sight can go significantly further. Anybody done this?

Point to Point Bridges Line of Sight

GS-2400 -High Speed Wireless Bridge

AIRNET 54Mb 900MHz NLOS Bridge Point-to-Point Kit

Non-Line of Sight - Point to Point Wireless Bridge-
(Super G mode capable of 125 MBPS data rates at close range)

High Power USB Wireless Adapter

[C. Beaty]

With a pair of high gain parabolic antennas and a clear line of sight, the sky’s the limit.

http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=102407

Avoid long coax cable runs and use the low loss stuff. Each 12 meter length of low loss coax will eat 50% of your signal power in the 2.4 GHz band.

[GraemeClarke]

Yes, we do it here. I live in a remote and mountainous part of NZ. We us all Microtec gaer, This is 2.4, and 5 gig hertz radio system. Same as portable phone. We have a network that services 30 subscribers. the longest hope is about 15 k. The gear is amazingly inexpensive,
Graeme

[ToddP]

I messed around with Cantenna's and found you can get some pretty fantastic range with them. Easy to make also.

[joeb]

I've also used it with great results. The key is the "clear line of sight".
A big killer is trees. Any type of foliage really soaks up the signal.
I've had even a relatively short building to building link of 100 yds die when the trees leafed out in the spring.
Get your antennas up above any trees.

[ehaley]

the bad part of doing that is anybody along the line can get into your network
with backtrack software no mater what you are using to keep people out wep wpa wpa2 and mac address's and the software is free just google it runs off cd or usb stick just make sure nothing important on the network

[Adam H]

We've used it to get Internet from the "commercial side" of the airport over to our club hangar. We have a store-bought beam type antenna on one end and a home made one made out of a modified direct tv style small satellite dish on the other. We were actually just messing with it today at our meeting and it is working great-very fast.

[scootscoot]

Yes, it can be done. I am sending internet to my brother 8.6 miles away LOS. Check out Ubiquiti web site. Not that expensive. I am using 5ghz nanostation 5m Website. http://www.ubnt.com/ Good forum and people there willing to help.

[lanichol]

Originally Posted by scootscoot

Yes, it can be done. I am sending internet to my brother 8.6 miles away LOS. Check out Ubiquiti web site. Not that expensive. I am using 5ghz nanostation 5m Website. http://www.ubnt.com/ Good forum and people there willing to help.

Your right!!

Did some research and UBiQUiTi has the best speed and distance at the least cost. Their products dominate and probably a good stock investment as a larger company will have to buy them. Reminds me of the early days of Cisco.

The NB-2G15 will probably work for me. $79 for each dish. There is no line lose as they use Cat5 to the dish. Thus the distance to the dish is like any other ethernet cable, probably up to 100 ft. Very cool. Heck the wireless routers I will use at each end with cost more.
http://www.ubnt.com/nanobridge

Good video on their products.
zttp://www.youtube.com/streakwave#p/c/FCCF4CEEC09836E3/0/2-1L2q31fBc

PS. They also have higher speed compact units for shorter distances like in a neighborhood.

[C. Beaty]

Took a look at the UBIQUITY web site and they have exactly what I wish I had bought. Receiver located at the antenna with Ethernet output.