| sharing Cable internet, 2 doors down
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| Taiwanese |
Hi,
I am thinking of getting cable internet at home. I don't surf much at home (two little kids). Mostly access the internet at work (like now). That's why I don't want to pay $30 per month.
Since my brother just moved 2 doors down from me. We decided to share cable internet.
Here are some info:
Distance between him and I is 150 feet (my right property line to his left property line)
One neighbor between us.
All two story houses.
What should I get? B or G?
I am thinking of adding one AP each at his and my house closest to our middle neighbor.
Any suggestion?
How abut this http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/rp...sma_antkits.php
Thanks........
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| JTM |
| As my understanding, the distance between B and G are identical. THe big difference between two is the transfer rate. |
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| wmquan |
Get at least the "G". While on paper the distance is the same, the fact that "G" has a higher transfer rate means you can go a longer distance before the degradation in transfer rate (that occurs with greater distance) becomes unacceptable.
I'm a little bit worried how well it'll perform if you have a house physically between you. Hopefully you can get a line-of-sight between the two points and that'll let the signal go straight through the air and not through the house in between you. Some routers let you add an external antenna, though most of them are indoors-only, of course.
The other alternative is "A" but that's more expensive. |
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| laborlitigator |
| I'd get the G also. Since upgrading to G, I've noticed a stronger reception for my wireless notebook. |
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| RonH |
Personally, I'd get G if you don't mind a little extra $$$. You have more bandwidth to play with, even though cable/dsl won't even max out the B's limit. B and G are also interoperable.
Just remember that with either flavor, you're at the very edge of the range for both of them ... and if this middle house interferes with the line of sight for the APs, you may still have some problems. Hopefully with the Gs extra available bandwidth, you won't see as much degradation.
EDIT:
Egad, in the time it took me to type this, three more replies appeared ... man I'm typing/thinking slow today. Need more coffee. :23: |
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| Taiwanese |
| For sure I can't get line of sight between my brother and I. That's why I am thinking of adding APs (one each). |
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| Loose Cannon |
| Be careful who you tell, your "local" network may violate the cable service license. Normally they don't want you to share among households. |
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| BLACK-BLING-MDX |
| DO NOT SHARE YOUR INTERNET. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE SUED BY THE CABLE/DSL COMPANY. DONT EVEN ATTEMPT IT. WITHIN YOUR OWN HOUSE IS OK... BUT SHARING W/ THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS ILLEGAL! |
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| Loose Cannon |
| California is a liberal place. Maybe its legal on the west coast? |
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| Taiwanese |
I talked to my brother last night about this.
We will continue to use dial-up.
Just don't want to get into trouble and doesn't look too easy setting it up.
Not worth it.
Both of us have little kids, we don't have too much time using it anyway.
That's why I haven't gotten the faster internet yet.
Thanks for all your input. |
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| perk |
I live in a large high-rise apartment building just over the Potomac river from DC. There are at least 15 of my neighbors using wireless cable routers that I can see from my computer. At least half of them haven't bothered to enable encryption on their router so as to block out all outside users. If I wanted to do so, I could mooch internet access all day long off these guys and they would be none the wiser. But, since I want each of my computers to reside on a network for file sharing between them, I have my own wireless router. I guess it's no big deal to some folks, but I tend to be more careful about who sees what's on my computer.
Getting back to your question about setting up and sharing a wireless network with your brother, you should go for it. I virtually guarantee you that you'll have no problem with it, except lack of privacy between you and your brother. If you don't care about that, then you should be fine. |
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| craig02mdx |
Run some CAT 5 at night through your neighbors yard to your brothers house! Or wait until he goes on vacation and get a trencher and then cover it up.
Just kidding of course:D |
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| Taiwanese |
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Originally posted by craig02mdx
Run some CAT 5 at night through your neighbors yard to your brothers house! Or wait until he goes on vacation and get a trencher and then cover it up.
Just kidding of course:D
This will be hard to do....:eek: |
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| asn |
why not become buddies with the neighbor? Put the man access point in his house, then repeaters in yours and your brothers house?
or just pay for broadband - if you have a 2nd phone line, by getting rid of it and your ISP, it will probally only cost you an extra $10 a month (that's what I did) |
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| DaleB |
| Got a great idea! One of you come up with $19.95 a month at today's great rates for Comcast. |
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