well i have broadband wifi, and a friend of mine who lives less than 1km away is very, very poor and only has dial up.

is there any way to boost my signal so he can fully use it?

with say a cable tv/foxtel satellite?
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on an unrelated note, if i wanted to steal my neighbors satellite dish could i just cut it out or would i need those cables?

Defcon had a contest about doing this a few years ago. Look it up.

Do you have line-of-sight to his place / can you site an antenna in a place that does?

say no line of sight, his house is 4.2km away, im using SpeedStream 6250 wifi modem, wat will i need etc

That distance a bit long isn't it.


Anyway i am also interested in doing the same thing except mine is less then 400m i think.

But Line of sight is an issue. But hopefully i will be able to do it.


But there is one big problem


Equipment + Money




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why would you want it 1km when it sais 4.2km in your post>(2 above me i think).

Im thinking an antenna.

http://windsurf.mediaforte.com/wifi/wifi.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=175801233

two cantennas (one either end) and the max power your router can go to, as long as they're well lined up, should be fine.

any further, get a couple of wrt54g's (the old, hackable ones) and bump on dd-wrt and shoot the power up to 100mW.

Apart from the fact that it is illegal to use wifi over property borders, 2.4GHz will not bend well. You would have to use a repeater. If you have a mate that can see both of your houses you should be good. Rain will still be a problem.

if you have a mate in the middle who can see both houses, 4 cantennas, and a wrt54 router running dd-wrt in repeater mode will do the job perfectly. hell, at a push, weatherproof the whole thing, make it look official, and attach it to the top of a lamp post that has line of sight to both houses. Attach a sticker something like 'property of the municipal council - electrical hazard, danger of death'. If you know what you are doing, you can then 'borrow' electricity from the streetlight. If you don't, solar panels + charging circuitry + battery, but in all honesty, that would probably get noticed, and cost more than just buying your mate broadband.

If your house is only *just* eg, round the corner, then its straight, consider the possibility of if you do know a house on the end that does have line of sight. speak to them, and ask if its ok to mount a cantenna somewhere discreet on their roof. The take cat5e, with power over ethernet to their house (if you live in terraced houses, run 2 ethernet cables (redundancy) over the roofs, if not, use the municipal phone line posts. Use a poe splitter to then power the router.

all slightly crazy solutions...but then, I don't know your situation