Two Mile range on wifi?!?!

-Mike- · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:00

Hi all,

Just wondering if you can shed some light on this. They've just had a wifi booster type thing installed at work, which will apparently give access to our wifi for a range of some 2.5 or more miles.

Now personally I don't see this as surely you would need to have the same transmission strength on your laptop or pc? Is it one big con or will this actually work?

Cheers

tres · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:04

line of sight, directional antenna, possibly wimax?

FrenchTart · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:08

It's actually very easy to do. I got 1.2KM with just bodged-together wokfi:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17601109&highlight=long+distance+wifi

-Mike- · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:11

So the laptops will be able to connect at that range? Because currently I tried with a laptop in the building underneath the thing, and it only showed 40%ish signal?

I think their plan is to offer wifi to units here and they seem to think people in the next town will want to pay to use it. Crazy I say, as the next town were the first down here to get broadband.

FrenchTart · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:17

Well, they're probably using far more powerful wireless transmitters. We were just using dodgy little usb wifi dongles and just focussing the signal with the woks

I'm sure they'll be able to get a reasonable signal out across a long open distance.

#Chri5# · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:24

I've installed several point-to-point 802.11b/g wireless links that have covered several miles. As above, directional antennas (eg a Yagi) do the job.