point to point wifi connection

[Myboom]

I need to establish a wifi connection to my buds house (<1km).

Telkom has an exchange in his area and I who live just outside the area "dunnu" have an exchange and Telkom has no plans to build one.

I cant see his house from mine but I was hoping a non line of site wifi antenna could help.

The local internet cafe can do the same thing but wants a R2500 installation fee for the hardware and R1000 per month for a 1Mbps connection.

I am guessing that they will throttle it anyways and that I would never get what I was paying for.

Anyone know of a good site i could read on how to set this up?

The thinking is I pay for his line upgrade to 4Mbps and then i use his internet via wifi.

Thanks guys

 

[grok]

Dunno what equipment you'll need but I do know the guys at www.dbg.co.za would be able to help.

 

[Evo1007]

Will you let me know what you find out about achieving this and the cost, as im interested in doing the same thing with a mate of mine. Thanks

 

[acidrain]

When you say you cant see his house, what kind of obstructions are in the way? Trees or buildings?

At 1km I'd get 2 Mikrotik SXT5HP

 

[DanH]

You need LOS for SXTs to work. Put them on poles each side until you have LOS. A 6m pole is under R300 delivered.

This setup will give you roughly a 100mbit connection.

 

[ShawnStar]

I have a 2.9Km link with two SXT's, plenty of trees and houses in the way but link stable and I get around 2.9Mbps download speed, equal to about a 32Mb link you could say. Over shorter distances with LOS you will get full 100Mbps speeds, and this is with the entry level SXT, not the new high power ones

 

[koeksGHT]

Or take a look at scoop (ubiquity nano stations)

 

[MDE]

Saw a post on the CTWUG site...a guy selling nanostation's.

www.ctwug.za.net/showthread.php?2082-Long-Range-Wireless-Equipment

 

[Myboom]

Thanks for the info. Like the scoop website

 

[ponder]

Where is this place?
If you stand on your roof can you see his roof?

You really don't provide much details.