I am looking for something cheap to grab the wifi two houses over(legally). I prefer overkill, not looking to spend to much. It would help if it can go through a few walls, or a house lol. Any suggestions? Would also be useful for travel and long distances.
The house would probably need one of these, just ya know, scaled down, sure you can't just get a connection to your place?
cant run a really long ethernet cable over there? cuz then you can just pop up another router at the other house without any massive signal loss
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You clearly do not understand how bad that would be ignoring any law in this situation. First of the repeated signal would be rather weak so before you even count in the throughput being cut in half (the nature of repeaters) you will have most of the throughput killed by error correcting compensation. then cut the throughput after correction by 2 your looking at a connection speed that is simply not worth it.
That being said you can look into this. and if I were you id also buy high gain antennas for it too (second link)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833281010
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833998199
Bridge the connection with homemade directional antennas (google cantenna]. Pringles tin, adapters, cables. <$10 each and you have yourself a ghetto yagi.
Point the antennas at one another from each site, configure the bridge, up the tx power if need be and enjoy your link.
Just be sure to check what channels are along path and choose the cleanest one.
You'll be very surprised with how far you can go.
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Your better off building your own. A Yagi antenna would go the farthest but only in one direction. For multi-directional you could use a 16dbi Dipole antenna. Now their are limits to how powerful an antenna can be (Link). Notice how point-to-point is stronger point-to-multipoint. Point-to-multipoint is a router talking to multiple devices. Point-to-point is just two devices talking back and forth (But it's a bit more complicated than that.) The trick is to get point-to-multipoint OVER point-to-point. Like in this image: http://www.taladwireless.com/images/knowledge/Ubiquiti/ptpMode/PTP_Mode_AP_ST.jpg
To get the max out of your antenna, you haft to do some calculations. These guys explain it really well: https://hak5.org/episodes/hak5-1515. Don't forget about getting something powerful enough to power the antenna!
FYI Check the laws for your area.
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