[Sussex] Wifi wisdom required

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Sat Jan 21 20:57:47 UTC 2006


Gareth

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:52:00PM +0000, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> I know a lot of you know a bit about wifi and such, I have task that I would
> like to do, I have ADSL here and my sister lives round the corner approx
> 200m (660ft) (this is an estimate using google maps and take the longest
> possible distance it could be i may well be less.) as the crow flys from
> where I live, how hard and what hardware would I need to acomplish sharing
> of the internet access.

Do you have a line of sight path between her house and your?  If so then two
directional antennas will probably provide the link.  With line of sight some
impressive distances have been obtained - but as I understand it line of sight is
important.  WiFi doesn't pass well thought walls and stuff.

Steve
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