wifi sharing and antennas?

manhattan

Hi,
i live in the same street as my parents, and both houses have an internet connection and wifi routers.

now what i would like to try and do is improve and boost my parents signal so that i can use their internet access with their permission of course.the street is a small cul-de-sac we live around 100 to 150feet away and line of sight is just in reach via the roof tops.

it would be great to reduce some household bills as we dont really need a home phone line, but of course it is required for accessing the internet.

any ideas on the best product to buy or make?
any advice would be great, although some nice person here will point out it is illegal to share their internet connection with a non subscriber!

hendersonb

you will need a couple of high gain antennas to make this work, the antennas should only be about 2m or 3m at the most away from the routers due to the loss in the cable.

It will work - if your definately intrest i will give you more details however what i can tell you is it will probably take about 1yr to pay for its self - external high gain antennas are expensive. You MUST have line of sight between the 2 antennas - aso make sure there are no trees in the way as in the summer when they have leaves the network will go down