Hey Cred Forums. I have a minor problem but would love this to be a general long range wifi thread. I can't get internet at my house. My grandpa lives 1200 feet away from my house. I have a cheapish router with decent range. I can pick up a signal and use it if im outside my house but it has metal siding and blocks everything inside. Whats the best cheapest way to get wifi over at my house from his? I need more than a dongle, more than one person in the house. Pretty sure the router in grandpas house supports bridging. I tried calling the internet companies. The wire literally ends 300 feet from my house and my neighbor gets it. They want 5000 for cable and the dsl company wont even let me pay them to run the wire. I guess I get the last laugh, since we will get internet and pay only for one house.
Has anyone heard of ubiquity? I see claims of incredible range and people using it for some really long range 900 mhz connections. With the best gear possible how far can 2.4 ghz go? I know 900 does well since the lower frequency isn't as easily blocked. Assume best case scenario, how far could you shar wifi from a mcdonalds or a public library? Anyone have any experiments or experience?
100 meters is the maximum for all the standard UTP cables used with Ethernet. I would set up a point-to-point wireless link. You can usually find ones that have a very high throughput, but very low range for not much money.
Camden Powell
300 feet without a repeater. Not far enough and it would cross someone else land. Neato though, Least I can have the antenna anywhere around the house or yard.
Dominic Gray
Buy an Alfa usb antenna.
If you can get it outside your house this will pick it up inside with decent strength. Plus you can crack other networks with it.
Either that or stick a repeater somewhere or mod it with a Pringles can.
Why don't you just buy a box of cat5 and run it and crimp it yourself?
Easton Sullivan
What if I used a repeater with two antenna ports, one with a directional and one with a omni going to inside the house? My house completely blocks wifi, i need some way of bringing it in.
Henry Hall
Hello, look up directional antennas and wds bridging.
Jace Ross
Repeaters are shit. The PTP units will be on the outside of your house.
Brody Hernandez
crosses neighbors property and i need wifi in the house for multiple users.
Not that cheap per say but I don't want to buy equipment i dont need. By the looks of it i need a wifi router and a access point with ethernet hook ups and run it into the house.
Anthony Sullivan
You're a retard
Parker Price
How hard would it be to crack someones network? I saw a video a while back on how to do it. Inform me a little bit more.
>Has anyone heard of ubiquity? I see claims of incredible range and people using it for some really long range 900 mhz connections. With the best gear possible how far can 2.4 ghz go?
Are you cityfag or rural?
Utility companies use 900 spectrum for remote metering so it can get a lot of interference.
2.4Ghz runs into interference in urban areas because everyone and their dog has a 2.4 WiFi router.
5Ghz works well, but you need LoS for a good connection.
Set them up as a bridge and configure your WiFi router as a simple hotspot in the 2nd location; also, set it to 2.4Ghz only so it doesn't interfere with the PtP link.
I own a rural ISP and use Ubiquiti equipment. We use higher end equipment and connect to fiber over 50 miles away in two hops.
Tyler Davis
Get on the roofs and point to directional antennae at each other. If you have line of sight, you can go quite far. This is how we get internet to locations that ISP will not service. You may have to spend some bucks for legitimate equipment, but considering you were going to spend $50/mo for real ISP service, it'll pay for itself in a few months.
Cooper Myers
Not OP, but if you connected a cantenna to a wifi router being used as a repeater in the second home would it be recognized fine as a regular antenna?
