1.5KM Distance Wifi connection

[henno]

Hi,

Hopefully you knowledgable people would be able to help, i'm truly desperate.

I want to setup a wireless connection between two homes. they're about 1.5 kms apart. There's no line of sight and the one home is probably a bit higher than the other (if that matters??)

What do I need? This would be to share an internet connection. Let's assume, I don't have any wireless equipment.

Feedback would be MUCH appreciated.

THanks

 

[The Guy]

Hi,

Hopefully you knowledgable people would be able to help, i'm truly desperate.

I want to setup a wireless connection between two homes. they're about 1.5 kms apart. There's no line of sight and the one home is probably a bit higher than the other (if that matters??)

What do I need? This would be to share an internet connection. Let's assume, I don't have any wireless equipment.

Feedback would be MUCH appreciated.

THanks

okay you would need 2 access points and 2 decent antennae .. i would 18 DB gain would be entry level

 

[henno]

okay you would need 2 access points and 2 decent antennae .. i would 18 DB gain would be entry level

Thanks for the feedback. I'm really new to all of this, so any recommended products would be helpfull.

Thanks

 

[The Guy]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm really new to all of this, so any recommended products would be helpfull.

Thanks

I havent dabbled in Wifi Setups for about 3 years now ... the last site we hooked up is still up and running ... i Used D-Link 2100 Access points .. and poynting antennae

 

[Gromitt]

no line of sight? absolutly nothing? If this is the case, you would need a bridge in the middle somewhere that has LOS of both properties.

 

[skydog]

you will battle if you dont have LOS

 

[WickedWeasel]

Get the Senao 400mw Access points and then stick on 20 Dbi flat pannels. you may want to try an Omni on the one side. The higher the power the more it will travel. if that does not work, get 2 x 1 watt amps for the radio's with 24 Dbi antenna, that will work, but will probally cook all the trees in direct site for the first 50m of each antenna.

 

[Ryder_JHB]

And break every rule, and law in the book - surpass the legal limits, flood the wifi spectrum for everybody within 30 kms so no-one else can connect wirelessly on their own little networks, and cause poor little birdies to self-combust and fall out of the sky and land on sweet old ladies and set them alight.

This is NOT the way to do it.

 

[henno]

I climbed onto the roofs of both houses. I think i'm quite fortunate in that there's a semi-clear LOS. There may be the odd palm tree leaf in the way, perhaps.

I'm thinking to give this a go.

I found this site, which may supply the hardware required for this job.

http://www.dbg.co.za

If anyone knows of another supplier, I'd love to here from you.

So what I'm planning now, is to get two 14dbi Panel antennas and two LinkSys routers (as per the above company's recommendation).

I'm still a bit unsure as to how everything will work in the end. Apparently one of the two Linksys routers needs to function as a client, rather than an AP. A bit dissapointing, as it would have been nice to have two wireless clouds on each side. From my understanding, when the Linksys acts as a client, other wireless devices cant connect wirelessly to it. Only through it's LAN points.

This would however still be acceptable. I had a look on the web, on how to configure the Linksys as a client (client-mode), and it all seems to be do-able. In essence all the devices on the linksys acting as the client, will be on their own subnet. (NATted) and the machines on the other Linksys AP will be on their own subnet. Therefor, machines on the 'master' network would have to hop on the client-mode router, before reaching the machines on that network.

This again would be fine, i think....

I do have a question though. Let's say Router A (acting as an Access Point) has a machine with an ADSL modem, where the modem acts as a bridge.

Would the machines that are on Router B (acting as a client) be able to do a PPPoE connection? Obviously machines on Router A's network are able to do this.

Then finally one more question. Would I be able to switch the roles of the two routers. Is it irrelevant which router is the AP and which is the client? I would prefer if the router that is acting as an AP NOT be on the network with the PC that has the ADSL modem. In other words the above scenario reversed.

Any feedback regarding this matter would be appreciated!

 

[BT6LW]

if that is the case,
then buy a third router,
and plug it into a lan point,

 

[ColinR]

Setup the AP on the one side (either)
Setup the Client on the other.

Done.

The wireless radios basically act as a cable would have. I have a couple of clients connecting to my AP, and each one gets assigned an IP address by the ADSL router, all on the same subnet. same as if they were plugged straight in...