Long range wireless router help

[KTurner]

Terms of Service does not equal criminal charges. The ISP can make their terms of service say I can only use the Internet while wearing my pajamas, but the sheriff won't throw me in jail because I used the Internet while wearing blue jeans. The ISP can terminate our agreement/contract, because I violated it. They could try to sue me for violating the contract. But I won't be thrown in jail, unless I also violated some criminal code that a group of elected officials created (ie, hacking is criminal, not because its prohibited by my ISPs terms of service, but because of the U.S. Code).

If your locality has a law that says sharing Internet is illegal, then it is. Or if your district attorney interprets other laws as meaning that sharing Internet is illegal, then it might be (probably depending on how good of a lawyer you can buy).

My ISPs terms of service, which I just checked, clearly states that if I "resell or redistribute the Service to any 3rd party", they will terminate my account.

Somewhat funny - It also says that I cannot "Post, transmit, or distribute content that is illegal, threatening, abusive, libelous, slanderous, defamatory, promotes violence, or is otherwise offensive or objectionable." Objectionable? Really? So If I call someone a stupidhead, they can terminate my account? I guess so, but they'd really be shooting themselves in the foot as they'd have to terminate almost all of their customer accounts

Keith

 

[zmjc]

I refer to my ISP as stupidheads all the time, and they've never termina

 

[ayelvington]

Ubiquiti has a very nice product line, and I've used their products to extend my home network into my barn with excellent results. A Ubiquiti Bullet with a yagi antenna should hook you up. Follow this link to get started:

Cyberguys.com - ubiquiti has returned the following search results

BTW, it's not "illegal" to share your service, but it might violate the user agreement of the ISP. The bottom line is that they have no effective way of telling unless the total bandwidth / fair-use-policy threshold is exceeded.

P.S. The effective limit of Ethernet is 300 feet without a repeater. You are much better off going with a wireless hop to your neighbor since direct-burial Ethernet would bankrupt you...

 

[missingstexas]

I refer to my ISP as stupidheads all the time, and they've never termina

Ha Ha! I see what you did there! Very funny those ISP pieces of sh

 

[kco]

I did not read all the posts in detail but someone did suggest putting a switch in the middle that would allow two 100 meter runs. Another easy option is to use wireless internet radios such as those available at tranzeo.com (there are other makers).

I am on a wireless internet system where the provider gets his main feed from the telephone company. He uses Tranzeo 5.8 GHz radios to service his main site on a cliff and distributes using 2.4 Ghz radios from there.

My service is fed through two neighbours' sites with back to back Tranzeo radios where one radio receives and then routes out through the second radio operating as an Access Point. The distance to the first neighbour from the main tower is about 10 km, then 2 km to the second neighbour, then 2 km to my house.

The download speed for this system can be up to 4 Mbps but is more typically 1.5 Mbps and can slow to a crawl when other subscribers are downloading movies, etc.

You would easily get in excess of 3 Mbps between you and your neighbour's house at that 600' distance. Of course the satellite feed is likely much slower than that. A couple of my neighbours have satellite and get around 1.2 Mbps download but it also can slow to a crawl at times depending on the loading on the shared system.

You could likely pick up a couple of used older Tranzeo (or similar) radios for around $100 each.

 

[bearhawk]

I wonder how these long range units would work..

C. Crane Company - Super USB WiFi Antenna 3

 

[tallyho8]

I have hi speed cable and my son who is a computer expert and lives in a house on my property 650' away from my house rigged a very cheap setup to connect to my internet.

He used a couple of old cans for the antennas that are in line of sight. I am not completely familiar with exactly how he set it up but he said it was very inexpensive and it works perfect. He said this system could easily go another 1000' if necessary.

It is connected to my router and I have 3 other computers in my house on the router and we get fast connections even with all 4 computers on at once.

I do not know the legalities of this setup, however, I own both homes and they are on the same property so I do not see any difference from doing this or using my computer in the other room or my laptop wireless outside on the front porch.

 

[k0ua]

Those rusty tin cans, even in the state they are in, probably provide at least 10dbd of gain on each end. for a path gain of 20dbd or 100 times the signal strength of a dipole antenna. Noticed he kept the coax to the radio pretty short, and put it under the eve also and ran cat5e to inside the house. Pretty smart guy.

James K0UA

 

[Wesdor]

If you do a google search for cantenna you may find what you are seeking

Not going to comment on legalities.

 

[grsthegreat]

are there stringas run between those cans????