Can I extend WiFi to second property?

Strider590

McKneff wrote: »

is that legal, I would have thought because you are doing someone out of paying for the wifi, the provider wouldnt be pleased at all.????

Not having a go, just curious.

It's not illegal, people used to do it in blocks of flats, 10 flats sharing the internet..... Which is why ISPs launched subtle campaigns demonising hackers, making people paranoid about WiFi security and actually reducing the range of their routers signal, most likely in cahoots with mobile operators who would find themselves in deep sh*t if we did what they do on many Greek islands and left our WiFi open for everyone to share wherever they are.

The ISP can include clauses about subleasing, but none of it is legally enforcible.

bluesnake

I have done what you want to do, but my distance was about 40m, if that and crossed a road.

Tried a horn antenna, Yagi antenna, only on the client side, and it made little difference - about 3db, but in real connection terms was worth zero. Ended up buying a stronger router and asked the user to drop their expectations about wifi in every room otherwise more £

Short answer: it wont work, too expensive, get an subscription to an isp.

Long answer: You should be able to get it to work using 2 parabolic dishes, two routers of which one router needs a special setup (special router - Alpha AWUS036H USB WLAN Adapter to the R36?) for dhcp think about £250 from ebay and all diy. The other, more costly way, but without the massive dish is a laser link connection, and the last second hand one i viewed was £2500 for one or two?.

Even if you concentrate a signal at the property, the person will need an equal strength to send back to you, also at an angle without a parabolic on the outside, the wifi may at best only be obtainable in part of one room.

The other issues are that there are only a few channels, and neighbouring wifi units around will obliterate the weak signal. Think of it as listening to single person shouting standing 100m away in a field vs listening to an individual in a choir while standing 10m away, but in your instance your instance you are listening to and individual in a choir 100m away, so your antenna beam has got to be both narrow and well focused

A diy solution to the optical version can be found here http://ronja.twibright.com

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another thought, of you are with bt isp, they may get openzone via neighbours for free?

poppasmurf_bewdley

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

There is a clause in my ISP T&C's which forbids me from sub-leasing the connection, amongst other things like forbidding me to assign, resell it or in any other way transfer the connection.
The definition of the "connection" is for the use at this property.

The proposal by the OP seems to be a sublease.

So if you are in the garden on a nice sunny day, with your hands free phone in your pocket, and it rings. When you answer it's your mother. You shout over to your neighbour, who's in his garden, and he happens to be your brother.

"Hey, mum's on the phone. Want a word?" And you pass the phone over the fence to him.

So that's breaking the terms of your landline? :mad:

Double_V

You need something like this.
https://www.ballicom.co.uk/tp-link-tl-ant5830b.p885877.html?ref=PLA&gclid=CIeRvIbazMwCFawy0wodygkNuw

esuhl

MethodMon wrote: »

I wonder some of these outdoor Access Points are cheaper than I expected but would I likely mess up the neigbours WiFi if they were using the same WiFi channel? I wouldn't like to slow down someones elses WiFi.

I'm not sure... However, most consumer routers these days select the wireless channel automatically, so if your high-power access point caused interference with your neighbour's wifi, their router would probably just switch to another channel.

I remember working for a few companies who linked offices that were a hundred metres apart. They used microwave links. Probably too expensive, but there's a little guide here that might be interesting:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78459.html

impecunious

Until I recently moved, I used to share my wifi with one of my neighbours across the road and, has been already mentioned, by using a router installed with DD-WRT. Worked great. Just a small a tip: keep in mind that the phrase "line of sight" works best with two routers.

MethodMon

As a backup plan I've been looking at getting two TP-LINK CPE210s as a Bridge, about £40 each on Amazon. I've had a £50 amazon voucher since last year and could live with putting £30 towards it. There are a few good reviews with some impressive distances but have a feeling they may have been in the country with no interference from other peoples WiFi. Unfortunately I wouldn't be 100% sure of this working either.

That gives you an idea of my budget. Changing ISP's to BT in the hope the nearest OpenZone has a good signal would cost too much I imagine.

esuhl

I just noticed that Sky are doing a deal that gives free internet access for a year (then £10 a month), and gives you a £100 M&S voucher. I haven't looked at the full details.

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/broadband-unlimited/

Maybe it would work out cheaper to get your mum to take up these free/cheap offers and switch to another free/cheap deal when the contract runs out...?

MethodMon

esuhl wrote: »

I just noticed that Sky are doing a deal that gives free internet access for a year (then £10 a month), and gives you a £100 M&S voucher. I haven't looked at the full details.

sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/broadband-unlimited/

Maybe it would work out cheaper to get your mum to take up these free/cheap offers and switch to another free/cheap deal when the contract runs out...?

That's a very good deal similar to what I have at the moment, unfortunatly my Mum doesn't have a landline so it'd be £208.80 extra a year for her. Not bad if you thought you'd use the £100 M&S voucher.

50Twuncle

Isn't this - just like sharing an unmetered water supply with all of your neighbours - then splitting the cost between, say a dozen houses ?
Or perhaps allowing 2 of your neighbours to log in to your Sky Go account (you are allowed to log on to 2 seperate devices at the same time) - then watching Sky on a full size TV via an Android TV adapter) - thus reducing your Sky costs by 66%.
..... now there's an idea.................