okay read it a bit.. "and not when everyone around me, just far enough away from the church, would have it."..
"I would build a sixty-plus foot tower so I could intercept the signal! "
Why not buy one or two $30 wireless routers and a directional antenna and share with a neighbor that isn't behind a church then. Honestly.
I at was 7-11 this morning when a guy got pissed off at a store clerk and followed him outside arguing. His wife said, "Does he want to go back to prison? Only a stupid man would go back to prison!" The other store clerk replied, "Not unless he's homesick."
It's not that hard to find friends (usually, a friend's workmate's friend, etc, etc) who can agree to have an antenna on their roof. Usually, just giving them a sliver of bandwidth or even just a rebate in purchasing that sliver off you will make them agree.
And then you'll find yourself to be the main ISP in your town:p
Even with fancy antennas, commercial or user made, using consumer grade routers to repeat a network signal is trying at best. It will work. For a while. Then you might have to reset the routers. Or replace them because most of them aren't really well built.
really ? that's odd, I set up point to point wireless links for work all the time that work indefintely. Pro gear like cisco/moto/canon/etc helps but you can get a perfectly reliable with a cheap-o router and decent antenna, that reaches miles.
Not a Linksys or Dlink, though I think Dlink is a little better. I've seen roughly 80%* failure rate in the first year, and most of them have to be rebooted regularly. Anectdotally, it seems like the ones that never need rebooting are the ones that suddenly fail.
You get what you pay for, and 95%* of the people are cheap-ass bastards.
Hm... I have 2 Linksys routers in my house (50 year old gov housing with 2 foot thick, reinforced, walls) and another Linksys router in my basement connected with a 9db antenna and its all running Sveasoft. I've had this setup for over a year and not one hiccup - unless you count Win2K AdvSvr crashing occasionally.
Before I had my DSL installed, I had the 9db antenna pointed to some idiot with an open access point about 100 meters away.
My biggest point of failure is my ISP's DNS server, and I'm thinking about
Yeah, around here poor dns seems pretty common. Even common sites like google would sometimes time out during dns resolution. Caching and using those name servers made a hige difference, though.
You know, in hacked/custom Linksys firmwares there is this thing called "WDS Watchdog" or "AP Watchdog". It automagically reboots your router in case the radio starts acting weird. Or, if you are some sort of neat freak, there's a cron job for rebooting the router every n minutes (this is actually useful if you got the five-day connection bug [utorrent.com] and does not know how to get around it [bsr-clan.de])
You say crappy routers, I say get the configuration right. Well tuned a WRT can beat the heck out of many "commercial" grade rou
Yes you could, and that would be fairly easy. It's called a "repeater" setup. Get two non-V5 WRT54Gs (V1-V3 WRT54GS would be best, but anyway) on eBay for around $50 each, 2 pairs of high-gain antennas (omni will do if your neighbour is across the street). Install the antennas (unscrew the original and screw in the replacements), go to http://www.dd-wrt.com/ [dd-wrt.com] get DD-WRT v23 final (or v23 SP1 Beta if you are feeling brave), flash your routers (get an adult to help you) and enable WDS (or lazy-WDS). There's a w
1000 feet of Cat-5 is $60-70. 3 hubs to boost the signal at 100 meter intervals would be another $100. I'm assuming he already has the wireless bridge. Stick the bridge on top of the church tower and run cable to your house. If the signal is good, you might not even need three hubs. Run the cable along fences, laundry lines, etc so the neighbors don't notice.
30 meters of multimode (good to 2km) is can be found for roughly US$60. Add in some cheap PVC conduit ($1.50/10ft) and some pvc glue to place it in the ground/seal it waterproof (and away from any chewing/digging animals) and you can run whatever you want for some time. You can find gigabit (fiber) ethernet cards for roughly $45 online, so for around $200 (yes, kinda expensive) and some minor work you can run that cable over to your neighbors and not have something that is likely to get struck by lightnin
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Honestly
Spoken like a woman who doesn't understand that the measure of a man's true worth is the size of his tower.
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And then you'll find yourself to be the main ISP in your town
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You can't get around the law of God. No, you'll have to go over instead. Hence, the tower (of Babel). His signals will be scrambled.
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You get what you pay for, and 95%* of the people are cheap-ass bastards.
*all numbers pulled right outta my butt.
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I have 2 Linksys routers in my house (50 year old gov housing with 2 foot thick, reinforced, walls) and another Linksys router in my basement connected with a 9db antenna and its all running Sveasoft. I've had this setup for over a year and not one hiccup - unless you count Win2K AdvSvr crashing occasionally.
Before I had my DSL installed, I had the 9db antenna pointed to some idiot with an open access point about 100 meters away.
My biggest point of failure is my ISP's DNS server, and I'm thinking about
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I use dnsmasq running on a linux server and some public dns servers [unrated.net]
works like a charm
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You say crappy routers, I say get the configuration right. Well tuned a WRT can beat the heck out of many "commercial" grade rou
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Get two non-V5 WRT54Gs (V1-V3 WRT54GS would be best, but anyway) on eBay for around $50 each, 2 pairs of high-gain antennas (omni will do if your neighbour is across the street). Install the antennas (unscrew the original and screw in the replacements), go to http://www.dd-wrt.com/ [dd-wrt.com] get DD-WRT v23 final (or v23 SP1 Beta if you are feeling brave), flash your routers (get an adult to help you) and enable WDS (or lazy-WDS). There's a w
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