DSL Range Extender

This might do it but I don't know if it's legit:

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On a sunny day (Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:15:35 -0700) it happened RST Engineering wrote in :

Was not Intel selling something like high power WiFi? Wimax?

If the area is yours, maybe run some glassfibers?

If you want to go from DSL to WiFi take a look at what L-Com has for amps and such. I would just take the DSL into the modem/router and from there to a wifi radio to transmit to your house. How far is it from the park to your house?

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Chisolm
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What sort of range are you talking of? A few hundred metres (easy) or kilometres. A pair of passive back to back cantennas is alleged to allow you to make things go round corners but I have never tried it.

Clear line of sight with no trees works best. I use a similar setup to allow my broadband connection to reach out to the village hall for running a computer class. High gain directional antenna at each end and then pray that it doesn't rain during the lecture!

Wet windows makes all the difference if you are to stay roughly within the letter (but not the spirit of the law). The transmitters are legal and legit, but the ERP right in front of a directional antenna is not.

At least in the UK there are various cheap USB dongles that do WiFi at not quite legal powers and combined with a high gain directional antenna you can get a respectable line of sight range. I also found that the same devices had fully Apple Mac compliant chipsets (a rarity) and triggered a minor buying frenzy by accident.

I expect in the US you will do a bit better since wet brick and stonework is pretty tough on microwaves and the Victorian plasters' habit of putting chicken mesh in the walls to stop plaster slumping makes old houses here almost like a Faraday cage.

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Roughly 200 meters.

Jim

That could easily be handled with a backhoe and some cable. But call DigAlert first :-)

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Just throw some SM or MM fiber in the ground maybe 6 inches deep. That's how they put Fios in my house. Bunch of Mexicans with a wide digging bar did 150 feet in about an hour. You can't even tell it's there. Run two separated runs for diversity if it's critical and space them 50 feet apart. Media converters are really cheap for MM.

tm

How far do you need to get? Isn't it easier to extend the phone line using wire?

Anyway, if you use directional antenna's (which are easy to make, look with Google) you can get many miles from a standard Wifi router.

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That would involve digging up about a hundred meters of asphalt and moving a 10,000 gallon propane tank. Ain't gonna happen.

Jim

Diamond saw -> loooong slit, drop in fiber, pour or caulk. That's how cable guys sometimes do that. Your knees might hurt a bit later that night.

Just go around it?

But anyhow, the device in my first link could probably do that job via radio link.

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2 x something like this might be the solution. I have not done any business with these folks so I cannot say good, bad or otherwise. They just popped up in a google search. They are in Quebec. I might try them to get a signal out to the back of my property.

There are probably other cheaper wireless solutions.

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Chisolm
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Just extend the phone line. 200 meters extra is nothing for DSL.

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Not really. I've cut a slit of roughly 250 meters in the floor of my living room to install tubing for floor heating.

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They have some pre made bridges.

Cheers

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Maybe you are younger :-)

Oh, for a minute there I thought you meant something else ... :-)

I've got those. But after 3-4 hours the knees still hurt.

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What's with you youngsters? I'm still on my original knees (only the left hip is artificial), and my knees don't hurt after 3-4 hours.

My knee pads are moderately soft. The hard rubber types... why bother... they only stop the tiny little pebbles from burrowing into your knees ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Slit trench in multimode glass. Cheap, dependable.

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YAGIs are your friends... So are 99$ 2.4 Ghz Bidirectional Amplifiers if your in the Boonies.

I am amazed where I can find "Bars" these days.

Better wifi control software lets you see signal levels in decibels. It would be wise to pick a channel scheme not in use by your neighbors.

Steve