Wireless via satellite dish in Afghan - help!

ivrytwr3

ivrytwr3

ivrytwr3

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Hey all,

I am posting from Afghanistan and have a problem i hope you all can help with!!

We are supposed to have wireless internet in our accommodation area, but at the minute do not and it will not be fitted until next year (after i've left!)

Next to us is another accommodation area that does have wi-fi and if i take my wireless devices near there, i can connect - from my accommodation area to the dish is approx 100m.

My posed solutions are:

a. Get a booster kit and put the aerial on top of my accommodation (tent) to my laptop and see if i get a signal.

b. Run a USB extension over 100m and have a dongle at the end of it!

c. Lastly for all the other guys in the tent to get wireless could i had a Mi-Fi type device if i could get connected?

Do any of these ideas sound workable?

Can anyone recommend the kit to buy?

Can anyone recommend a better idea?

Does OcUK want to help several Royal Air Force personnel stuck in Afghanistan over Christmas get some internet connectivity?!

Thanks for reading.
 
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AFAIK 100m USB extension won't work, would need repeaters. Could try the old pringles can trick with a booster kit or similiar.
 
AFAIK 100m USB extension won't work - thought not :(


Could try the old pringles can trick with a booster kit or similiar. - 'Pringles can trick'?! Can you elaborate?

Thanks
 
what about some kind of receiver dish, I think solwise sell them, or could you use a 100 meter lan cable?
 
ha! ha! That's mental!

Is there nothing i can buy that does the same but to a higher standard?! If my boss saw that sticking out of our tents he'd go psycho!
 
Linksys WRT54G with Tomato/DD-WRT installed in wireless bridge mode, but I'm guessing they're fairly hard to come by over there!
 
i can buy anything via the interweb and have it sent out, but it has to be pretty simple for a bunch of RAF lads to set up!!

Any links to the kit would be very much appreciated.
 
Make a cantena and use a usb wifi job that has an sma aerial option! Cost you £20 all in and works. A friend is using one his end too pick up my wifi that is 3/4 mile away
 
Could you not either, plug an Ethernet cable into the Linksys WRT54G and run it to your tent and put another Linksys WRT54G or similar at your end in bridge mode, or if you don't have physical access to the router place a Linksys WRT54G near the other tent, then do that same above and have both running in bridge mode?
 
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