Reply With Quotewhat are you trying to figure out?
So who is he/she on the boards?
what are you trying to figure out?
I want to network my house with my parents next door. About 150' or so.
Mine was pretty easy, Linksys
Plugged it into my cable modem, loaded the software, installed a wireless card on the second computer and let her rip. Took less than 1/2 hour.
Today my mom comes over with brand new laptop, which came set up for a wirless connection. Powered on and jumped on the net. Unreal.
150' feet may or may not work. Depends on the houses. The sure way to do it is with a directional antennae at your house and her house. 150' no problem there as long as you have clear line of site. You will need 2 wireless routers or an extender/repeater. The cheaper way is to hard wire between houses. Just run a piece of Cat 5 between houses, plug into wireless at her house and into a spare port on your end and voila. Not a big deal either way. Not that you really care about this but doing so is probably a violation of your TOS with the ISP. They are trying to prohibit groups of people sharing a single connection, not someone helping out mom, but it is a violation.
The only thing my mom uses the internet for is the Food Network site. Nothing else. She has never used email. I have discussed this with my ISP provider and he said there was no problem since the service I pay for is unlimited computors but limited to 6 gigs of bandwidth a month.
I do have a direct line of site with no obstructions so I was going to try 2 routers. Cat 5 would be out of the question. There is a pool and hedge and lots of sidewalk in between.
Mickey,
When using a wireless network, is any bandwith lost as the result of additional users?
Not as a result of the connection to the router; rather, 1 or 100 users, does it matter since it's wireless signal only???
I was wondering about this earlier :idea: :idea: :idea:
Thanks in advance
try two routers with no special antennae to start with. 802.11 is good for 1300' in a perfect world with no losses. Every wall is effectively gonna give you about 3 db loss. so the closer you can mount them to her side of your house the better. Buy a decent brand too. Do a google search and do some reading if you want to increase your odds. You can buy routers with up to a full 300mw of power which definitely increase the chances of you getting there. Like I said before it really should be no problem.
Only 6 GB?
How the hell can you look at porn with a bandwidth limit like that?
PM me with what you are looking to do. I can help you out.
Like Mickey said:
A couple of these AP (http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=178)
and these:
WiFi Card (http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=179)
You can try it with no antennas at first . Hawking has some good high gain antennas:
Indoor and Outdoor (http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodFam.php?CatId=32)
If you set them on the two walls closes to each other you would get a better signal. the bandwidth will start to collapse the farther away you get.
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