Wireless networking across long distance -What I did?

Question

From my brother's house, I put my router's antenna into a coffee can, put the white plastic lid on it and pointed it to my Mom's house. Then I put my mom's USB access point in another coffee can, put the white lid on it, and pointed it at my brother's house. I am getting excellent reception for my mom to use my brothers broadband connection, beaming across the street! Awesome. There must be about 150 feet between them.

FYI: Before I set this up with the coffee cans, I could not connect at all. So SOMETHING is making it work better. It makes sense that if you direct the cans to each other, you're gonna have a spotlight effect with the signal. That just makes sense. Before you start casting cheap blows at the mentality of what I did, just try it out yourself.

When is the last time you took USB access point ($50) and a router ($70) and not only SAW each other, but were able to connect at great speeds?

300 feet my foot. Get real, man. Before we did this to these two pieces of equipment, the best we got was an occassional detection of the router's SSID and that was it. No way to actually connect.

Now it's like they're both in the same room.

Answer 1

yeah, I too just created a satellite dish-inspired signal booster. It works like a charm. It's made out of tinfoil and has copper wire wound around an old RF antenna, which is plugged in as a wireless antenna on my wireless card. I've been getting massive signals across my house now, and that's from a peer-to-peer network (wireless card to wireless card)

Answer 2

Ok the coffee can's have absolutely no effect on signal quality. The fact that most of all routers/access points have a 300 foot range is why you get an excellent connection. You say the distance is half of that. I've done the same thing recently but didn't use the ridiculous coffee can thing.

Answer 3

initially i might attempt your cyber web connection to make certain that the internet lag is brought about via your instantaneous setup. i might initially connect via an ethernet cable to get rid of your instantaneous setup and see if your lag issues bypass away. particularly situations lag is brought about via internet site visitors rather at situations whilst everybody is utilising the internet, so upgrading your setup would possibly not help the main inexpensive and maximum useful may be a protracted ethernet cable. a pair of Powerline adapters supply an selection to a protracted ethernet cable yet value greater. they don't look to be particularly as helpful yet once you pick for a 200Mbps version it provides you with an helpful connection. the fee varies in accordance to the area the two adapters are aside no rely if or not they're on the comparable ring significant and electric interference. They an exceptionally common to setup. you may additionally attempt upgrading your router and wifi adapter to instantaneous N this might supply you greater helpful velocity and coverage. i might additionally examine your setup for neighbouring instantaneous networks inflicting interference via changing the broadcast channel on the router to a million, 3, 9 or 11 from the default of 6 an quite final selection may be a instantaneous extender/repeater. that's greater frustrating to establish yet might supply you a greater helpful connection than you have on the 2nd.

Answer 4

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