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airspirit · 09-10-2002, 01:46 PM

Having just dealt with this problem myself I have a couple of q's for you.

1) How clear is the area between you. If it is an empty field (no trees or obstructions between houses), you MAY be able to use a good AP and NIC and get signal unamplified. If there is ANY obstruction, there is no chance.

2) If there is obstruction, can you set up a line-of-sight connection between an antenna at your place and one at his? By line of sight I mean that you can SEE his antenna from where yours would mount with NO obstructions between you. If you don't things are looking even worse for your project.

3) If you gave bad answers to the above, how much money are you willing to spend? Getting cable is expensive (think $1 to $1.50 per foot) and using long cables requires amplification (expensive). The only other alternative is an extremely powerful antenna (think >21dB), and there are still no guarantees. If there are a few trees or such between you, you probably can do it ... if you a huge apartment complex, you're f*cked.

I just went through this nightmare ... please think this out and RESEARCH before you start throwing money at it or you'll go broke very very quickly.

09-10-2002, 01:46 PM	#4
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	Having just dealt with this problem myself I have a couple of q's for you. 1) How clear is the area between you. If it is an empty field (no trees or obstructions between houses), you MAY be able to use a good AP and NIC and get signal unamplified. If there is ANY obstruction, there is no chance. 2) If there is obstruction, can you set up a line-of-sight connection between an antenna at your place and one at his? By line of sight I mean that you can SEE his antenna from where yours would mount with NO obstructions between you. If you don't things are looking even worse for your project. 3) If you gave bad answers to the above, how much money are you willing to spend? Getting cable is expensive (think $1 to $1.50 per foot) and using long cables requires amplification (expensive). The only other alternative is an extremely powerful antenna (think >21dB), and there are still no guarantees. If there are a few trees or such between you, you probably can do it ... if you a huge apartment complex, you're f*cked. I just went through this nightmare ... please think this out and RESEARCH before you start throwing money at it or you'll go broke very very quickly. __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied