Sharing Broadband Connection - How to Information?

cirrus18

As a money saving exercise I want to share my son's broadband ADSL connection. He lives about 300 m from me, in clear line of sight and we intend to put up a directional aerial each.
He has a ADSL modem with another computer connected by 812g to it.

To get a line of sight I need to put my aerial as high as possible, with the transmitter, or what ever it is called, close to it in the bedroom. I also must be able to disconnect the little rod aerial and connect an external one.

It's a large house and awkward to get a cable up to the bedroom so I was hoping I would be able to connect to the transmitter thingy via a USB dongle. By wireless anyway and not cable.
I have been looking on the Internet and can't seem to find what I need. Not having done this before I don't quite know what I'm looking for or its name. Modem/hub/access point etc or what?

Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated.

superscaper

First thing would be to check with your son's ISP whether you are allowed to share with more than one household. Most t&c's of ISPs prohibit this and your son may be liable to have his contract cancelled.

rosscobley

Ok i do this from my house to a mates house. Its just about line of site. What i did was move my wireless access point in my bedroom window (If you look out of it you can see my mates living room window) If i take my laptop down his house and stand near his window then i pick up a really good signal and is house is quite a way away from my house. You could get a Usd wifi stick and stick it in the window get an usb cable from that in to the back of your pc and it should wor. You need line of site though dont have to be perfect but quite good

cirrus18

"Your son may be liable to have his contract cancelled"


Superscraper, I was asking for technical advice not legal. You are! good at putting the mockers on anything aren't you.
Funnily enough we had already checked this out with his ISP and been given the okay. Thank you very much

wiraone

For a real moneysaving measure, take a look on how to build your directional antenna with just a pringles can..

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

rosscobley

Just read your post again. to do it any other way than what i just said will cost quite a bit as you would have to buy a wifi card for your computer, a wireless router that has an screw on aerial, plus two aerials and the cable( Its cost quite a bit for the cable) By the time you pay for all that you could of paid for the internet for 1-2 years.

Mr_Squiddy

cirrus18 wrote:

"Your son may be liable to have his contract cancelled"


Superscraper, I was asking for technical advice not legal. You are! good at putting the mockers on anything aren't you.
Funnily enough we had already checked this out with his ISP and been given the okay. Thank you very much

Most ISPs would consider sharing a single broadband connection between properties to be a breach of t&cs. If you have one which does not then that's the exception not the rule.

Some people get shirty over the strangest things.

amcluesent

You could try this http://www.tritium.co.uk/ or go for a free system http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/

superscaper

cirrus18 wrote:

"Your son may be liable to have his contract cancelled"


Superscraper, I was asking for technical advice not legal. You are! good at putting the mockers on anything aren't you.
Funnily enough we had already checked this out with his ISP and been given the okay. Thank you very much

:rotfl: I was making sure you had checked, I never said that all t&c's would prohibit it and it definitely wouldn't be allowed. A lot of people wouldn't realise this, it's as much for everyone's benefit as for yours. Also it has nothing to do with legal advice. I think you interpreted my post as accurately as you spelled my name.

rosscobley

How are they ever going to find out that you are sharing.

tooconfused_2

They are not I turn on my daughters laptop and it automatically logs on to a neighbours wi fi connection with no help from me the isp aint bothered as long as its getting its dosh