Broadband for people out of range

[legover]

i'm living in a house with 7 mile direct line of sight from my rooftop to the town up the road which has ADSL. i'm outside the service area.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207.html outlines a method of wirelessly connecting to someone with a connection using a thingy called a YAGI & getting, in his case in California, 2 megabits per second direct to his house, all way beyond my scope to construct. must be thousands of potential users in Thailand just out of range of the TOT/Whatever switch who'd be interested where they have line of sight to someone with a DSL connection. i certainly am.

 

any thoughts here.

 

some associated sites

http://www.wi-fi.bz/wifi/how_to_start_a_wifi_wisp_802.11.html

http://keenansystems.com/wififaq.htm

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

http://keenansystems.com/store/index.htm

http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/long-range-wifi-antenna.html

http://www.3nw.com/pda/wireless/wi_fi_pringles_can_yagi_antenna.htm

 

 

 

 

 

[danish30]

If your house is located in Thailand, you can pretty much forget about doing anything like this. It requires that there is a wireless network nearby, which you most likely will not find anywhere besides central locations around Bangkok. You can't just hook into the regular ADSL network, since it runs on the phone wires.

 

Yagi is just the name of a high gain very directional antenna design.

 

You could get satelite internet, but from what I hear the performance isn't worth the cost.

 

Not much help I know, but unless you know someone in the nearby town with Adsl who is willing to set up somekind of wireless bridge for you, then there isn't much hope.

 

Regards,

[OCgringo]

we sold these Yagi for cellular phone use back in the 80s

 

mostly for cabins in the mountains etc

 

You pointed it at the cell site and locked it in,

 

They are very directional, and I doubt that a normal WiFi set-up would transmit enough power to catch the signal.

 

I could see if you had a friend a few miles away in a direct line of sight, they could set up an amplifier to push the signal,

 

Or a large building that was WiFi thru whole building, but not just a single house set-up

 

OC

[carlton68]

Hi,

 

might be possible if there is a sender and you have direct sight to the sender plus a good directional antenna.

We have something here roughly translated as citizens net.

They have three senders up in high places and promise this will work up to 5 kilometers. My neighbour is about 3 kilometers away from the sender and has no problem. He only had to attach the antenna to the outside wall and drill a hole to get the antenna cable through. It wouldn't work with the antenna inside the house.

 

As OCgringo said, possible, but not with the standard components.