Do you share your Highspeed connection

[smigen]

with your neighborhood?

About a month ago, I mounted a 802.11g WAP on the ridge of my roofline for the house. Four of my neighbor's (lower blue collar income) now use the Net for free and are very thankfull.

Anyone else doing the same with Wifi or Cat5?

 

[stovebolts]

Actually, I was thinking about getting satalite and splitting it between the neighbors to offset the cost... but I'm about 700 feet from my closest neighbor which means two repeaters (hubs, switches) which got me into running electrical... which made me think of winter...-10 degrees... which is below the operating temprature of the switches...
Wireless I do not believe is a cost effective option for that distance...

 

[smigen]

Wifi would work, np. But you/neighbor's would need to spend $250/$150 respectively for some quality equipment.

As far as 700 ft. goes......cupcake!

I'd sit 1/2 mile from "some" WAP's and pick their network apart while streaming talk radio from their pipe with this equipment in the Big Truck.

LOL...I'd be doing 75 and chatting to "bud's on IRC with B-itch-X through the Sprint network. ;)

 

[stovebolts]

I'm assuming that the horizontal home made jobber is your wi-fi?

I've got a decent WAP, but the antenna's I've used, including some directional antenna's won't make the distance.

If I had a way to mount the antenna outside (with about 20 feet of coax) then I'd probably make the trip, but the house is so 'thick' not much of a signal will pass through the attic let alone the walls. (house is 106 years old. Starting with drywall covering plaster w/slats, then real oak 1x8's then real clap board, then that fake brick with 1 inch fiber board, then tyvec and finally vynal siding...)

 

[smigen]

I'm assuming that the horizontal home made jobber is your wi-fi?

LOL It's not homemade, I just painted it flatblack. And it's not the "wi-fi", it's just the 14db gain Yagi antenna.

 

[stovebolts]

LOL, knew you would catch me on the "Wi-Fi" :-D , sloppy typing on my part.
But, I'd have to question the "14 db gain" Yagi 8-) Looks kinda like a single driven dipole (dipoles don't have gain... it's all marketing hooplaa) unless your using the trailer as your reflector or they have a reflecor element inside, but then to get 14 db gain, you'd need at least two, maybe three forward directors wouldn't you? :wink:

BTW, I run 27.635 USB and I go by 2at827 8-)

 

[smigen]

LOL, knew you would catch me on the "Wi-Fi" :-D , sloppy typing on my part.

I knew what ya meant =), I just saw an opportunity to "Bust your chops" :/

http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hg2415y.php

I beleive it acts more as a "wave-guide".

Never got into Sideband stuff though some drivers I know have.

 

[stovebolts]

Wow, your right :wink: It is an enclosed yagi with a 30* width [vertical]. That's too cool!
I wonder how they got it to transmit at 50 ohms though :-? I mean, I know the formula for what the length of coax needs to be for HF, but I have no idea how long a piece of mini 8 would have to be to keep your swr down... did you use mini 8 or rg 58 or rg 213?

 

[smigen]

1 spiffy wifi card

19" pigtale assembly

2 of these

and 6' of

The Yagi has it's own 12" cable with a n-female connector.

 

[stovebolts]

See, now your getting me to thinking :wink:

If it will handle 50 watts, why can't I duel off the yagi and attach them directly to a WAP?...
Problems and questions I see...
1. Can you run duel yagi's off a wap?
If so, how far apart do they need to be from each other and
what would be the denominating factor?
2. Is there a way to feed a duel antenna wap into a single antenna?
3. If 12 feet of coax is needed to achieve the proper attenuation, is that 5/8 wave, 1/2 wave or full wave? I really need 20 feet of coax to make it outside my house... (thick walls, remember). How do I achieve the coax length needed without destroying the swr?

I think I'll play with this again... If the neighbors are interested, maybe I'll go satelite 8-)