Long range wireless?

tres · 2 Nov 2007 at 09:13

Dear all,

I want to set up a Wireless network between my house, and a friends house.

From my roof, there is a direct line of site to my friends house.
It is approximately 300m away.

Are there any nice, cheap components that could do this?
It would be for file/printer sharing, no net sharing needed.

Thank you

ANDARIAL · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:16

2 wireless pci cards or 1 card 1 router and 2 patch antennas
should do the trick
antenna's about £20 each plus cable at about £20 for 3m custom made to suit your wifi card/router connection

wij · 3 Nov 2007 at 11:35

You might want to consider doing it with 5GHz equipment, will be more suited to the range in question, and also less likely to suffer from any interference from any other nearby wireless networks.

Could you give us some information about the kinds of networks both you and your friend have at home at the moment, i.e. are you both using a router of some kind as that will complicate the setup for you a little bit.

tres · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:45

Thank you both

At the moment, i have..

Wireless Netgear Router DG834G v2
Connected to 3 PCS

Friend has just a PC

DavidB · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:25

Walk to your friends house with a USB stick for file sharing...much more sociable, saves you cash and saves on electricity.

Are you really in need of a network ?

tres · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:14

Yes, we are really in need of a network

It's not much more sociable when we're all usually at one house anyway - this network is to make things easier, a lot easier than constantly messing around with usb sticks.

Electricity? it's free here anyway!

MumboJumbo · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:19

Surely he will be using your internet also then? Doesn't seem like a good idea. But anyway if you really want to then the netgear rangemax is ment to have great range. ive got the 110 mbs one and its ment to hae 500 square feet radius. Youd need to get some extra antenis though but i cant see that adding range if they are all in the same place? Is it possible to "boost the signal" but then it could get distorted. The routers are great though, never cuts out or anything. Solid connectiong all over my garden and down the road lol.

Tomsk · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:22

google cantenna

norm · 3 Nov 2007 at 18:43

300m isn't particularly long range for wifi at all, especially in the open air.

My advice would be to get two access points that run on power over ethernet, place each in a weatherproof box (non-metal obviously), then mount facing eachother.

You should get good long lasting performance from that.