Possible? Wireless networking gurus needed

[ScottulusMaximus]

So I'm moving from my lovely 20meg ADSL back a few hundred years to an area where I'll get 8 if I'm lucky. This cannot be allowed to continue! There is fibre, all the way around the complex, but not in it and no timeline to change that.

Now the SO's parents are 250m away on the dot as the crow flys, they have fibre, see where I'm going with this? How would I go about wirelessly connecting through them, possible? The 2 networks on either end would have to be separate, just the internet connection going through.

No line of sight, 2 small buildings and a couple of trees.

Oh and No Telkom unlimited, only Rain.

 

[Bryn]

Without line of sight I don't think you have any options.

Do you know anything about why your complex was excluded from the fibre rollout?

 

[Genisys]

Try to speak to the owners of one of the buildings in the way. See if you can bounce off their building. Give them dimentions and look to see if they will allow it. Best option really.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Without line of sight I don't think you have any options.

Do you know anything about why your complex was excluded from the fibre rollout?

Only signed the contract today so haven't chatted to anyone in the complex, dead end contacting Openserve. The houses all around are lit up but "our" complex and the one next to it is still future.

Try to speak to the owners of one of the buildings in the way. See if you can bounce off their building. Give them dimentions and look to see if they will allow it. Best option really.

The buildings are another house in the complex and the top floor of the neighbours at the SO's house.

I'm getting from the responses that no LOS means no dice?

 

[Bryn]

Only signed the contract today so haven't chatted to anyone in the complex, dead end contacting Openserve. The houses all around are lit up but "our" complex and the one next to it is still future.



The buildings are another house in the complex and the top floor of the neighbours at the SO's house.

I'm getting from the responses that no LOS means no dice?

It isn't legal to beam wireless signal over public space without a license, so you definitely don't want to involve more than one family that you trust.

Your best bet is to either make do with whatever DSL is available or get an LTE connection while you wait for fibre. You can also try contacting as many fibre providers as possible to see whether they'd organise a snappy rollout if you can get a certain number of people in your complex to commit to a fibre connection.

Even if you had line of sight with your folks, setting up a totally separate network is a headache.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Only signed the contract today so haven't chatted to anyone in the complex, dead end contacting Openserve. The houses all around are lit up but "our" complex and the one next to it is still future.



The buildings are another house in the complex and the top floor of the neighbours at the SO's house.

I'm getting from the responses that no LOS means no dice?

Not always a dead end, 2.4ghz network can go through building if it is strong enough. You get high powered wifi cards that can assist.

Mikrotik equipment allows you tweak the hardware to be able to do this.

ICASA won't be so happy with you if they find out

 

[The_Ogre]

I'm sure a couple of nanobeams will work

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Ah I see, let's treat this as an academic discussion then! I can install a mother of a dish at the SO's house, thinking one of these: https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-2-4ghz-24dbi-outdoor-grid-parabolic-antenna/PLID28719923

How would I power that thing? Would then need a receiver my end, may have to be a little smaller, and then connect into my router to network all the devices in my house.

 

[The_Ogre]

Ah I see, let's treat this as an academic discussion then! I can install a mother of a dish at the SO's house, thinking one of these: https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-2-4ghz-24dbi-outdoor-grid-parabolic-antenna/PLID28719923

How would I power that thing? Would then need a receiver my end, may have to be a little smaller, and then connect into my router to network all the devices in my house.

There's no transmitter or receiver. Think of it as sound (it actually is, believe it or not). When your router speaks, it goes out your CPE and your in-laws' CPE listens and goes to fetch what you want. So both of the CPE's need to be able to talk loud enough for the other to hear. The problem with the buildings and sound in the middle is it absorbs the sound so the other party cannot hear so lekke.

I have used Nanobeams before and the distance was more than a kilometre, also with a bit of brush in between. To use my analogy above: they talk fscking loud!

Powering. 99% of these things come with POE (power over ethernet). So inside the house you inject power into the ethernet cable and then connect it to the CPE. Simple, if it doesn't come with an injector, grab one on TakeAlot.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Ok this isn't going to work, found some math and there's just too many trees in the way. To get LOS I'll need about a 15m pole on my end and mount the other end on the top of the lightning rod, which could be fun.