GonnaBRichYeahYeah! writes "My dad lives down a dirt road 500 meters and several away from the off the main road. The cable company will not put cable down is lane for any less than a ridiculous sum of $10,000.
And he cannot get phone line DSL since he is so far away from central terminal, so he relied on painful 22k/sec dial up for access to Internet.
He got sick of it and relies on Hughes satellite Internet, at $60/month but he still has to be connected to phone line to upload to the Internet. Its not a good solution, but better than a dial up.
His friend lives on the corner of the main drag and his lane and has cable, thus hi-speed Internet.
I suggested that he get a wireless access point, and put it at his friends house and then get a wireless card for access. The problem is that no wireless routers go that far (max range of -N is 200 feet) and WiMax is too complex for a 70-year old man. Any suggestions from Slashdot crowd would be helpful."
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It should be relatively easy by adding a couple of directional antennas at each end to get that kind of distance. In addition, some of the routers that run Linux are easily hacked to boost transmit power, or run amplifiers at both ends. So look for routers you can add external antennas to, preferably ones that you can up the tx power on. Have a looik at the RadioLabs site.
http://www.wisp-router.com/wri/itemdesc.asp?ic=PS2-17DP&eq=&Tp= [wisp-router.com]
These are a web based radio that functions as both an AP and a client. Easily will reach the distance you're looking for and shouldn't have a problem. I've got people doing upwards of a couple miles with Line of Sight and these. Mount them outside each home or in a window facing the other house with the same SSID configured on both sides and it shouldn't be a problem.
Hope it helps,
Paul
Not that difficult (Score:1)
Easy enough (Score:1)