So heres what needs to happen. My sister lives a few blocks (1350 ft) away in our small town. I have Mediacom (barf) and she needs internet for school. We are both on limited budgets and she cant afford to hook up to Mediacom on her own. I was thinking it would be so nice if we could share this connection. Anyway I did some research. This product seems the best for me as it is cheap, high powered, and 2.4GHz. The 2.4Ghz is important because the signal will have to go through 1 and a half houses to make the distance, and 2.4Ghz is better than 5GHz for such things.
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Airmax-AirGrid-Antenna-AG-HP-2G20/dp/B0051GLIP4 <--- Amazon's page
https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/airgridm/ <--- Product page
Anyways, my main question is this. So right now I really just want to have 1 antenna and just set it up as an AP. This would mean I would have it mounted on my house and pointed towards hers. Now my concern is that the antennas in her devices wouldnt be able to transmit back or something. I'm not sure how all that works.
I could also mount the antenna on her house and have it pick up my router's WiFi, if that would be a better option. I would then need to buy a router on her end too then of course, along with aditional outdoor cabling.
I know you can set up two of these and point them towards each other and this should work fine, but adding another dish plus a router that would be needed along with the extra cabling to the router drives up the price a bit farther than I'd like.
Any and all help is super welcomed!! Thanks guys!
Okay.
Can you clarify this? Because from what I understand these devices will have a tough time going through buildings. I believe these are meant to be point to point devices meaning you need line of sight for it to work properly. And even so, I would check your local laws before blasting frequency through somebodies house.
sat dish a 2.4 bgn wireless receiver and a coffee can that has a metal bottom. aim at end point and connect.
Yes they are meant for ptp, this one for 20Km+ distance specifically. And yes there is a house and a garage in the way. Ive read reviews of these going through thick forests with little to no problems, so I think it will be able to go through these obstacles, pherhaps with some interference but not too much. There might be some small packet loss, but shes not going to be gaming over this connection so latency isnt the biggest issue. Considering my current cheap omnidirectional router can get from one end of my house to the other and then into the yard some even, I am pretty confident this 3Watt dish can make it.
As far as local laws are concerned, I hadnt thought of that. I doubt there are really any for this situation as I live in a small rural county. It obviously doesnt violate any federal laws, as it is for sale of course. At any rate, If/when I get this thing set up I will go next to the obstacle house and see what channel their WiFi is on, and set mine to a different one. Like I said its a small town so we are definetly not congesting all the 2.4GHz channels here.
Are you suggesting I use a dish for my house and set up a homemade dish on a router at hers or something? My main conercen is that her devices will not be able to transmit back to my house from so far away, but I'm not sure how all that works.
I suppose fashioning a dish (such as a metal can, or aluminum foil dish) onto a router and pointing it towards my house and having the router just act as an AP and having her connect her stuff to that AP could work. Does anyone think this is plausable?
no im talking about haveing her use the dish and a coffee can with a usb wifi adapter. the dish has the potental to give you 1/2- 3/4 mile range on the 2.4ghz band. depending on aim and elevation.