Long Range Wireless Network

Mr_Bojingles

I am investigating what it would take to set up wireless over a mile or so.

The story is that we have a customer who needs to have cable internet but the closet location is a mile down the road.(we aren't the isp, charter is) We will be able to construct an antenna at the location of the cable box and have a hook up there but what would be the best way to get it there? I have never done any work in long range wireless so any thoughts an ideas are welcome!

Heres what I was thinking: Hook a wireless router up on the cable modem side and a wireless access point up on the customers side. Then attach Directional Antennas such as these http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=&pid=56 to each wireless device and point them in at each other (simply speaking) Its a fairly clear shot between the two locations with the exception of trees but I think the antennas could be put up high enough so this wouldn't be an issue.

Thoughts and Ideas?

Mr_Bojingles

To get an idea of what I am looking at:

Access point:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DWL-1700AP

Router:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DWL-1750

Directional Antenna:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=&pid=289

GrayFox

I would recomened agenst dlink from personal experence (unless you already purticed the router) I would recomend a linksys wrt54gs and some hacked firmware. (can increese the signal strenght up to 400%)
And get a third party anntena such as one of these http://www.wirelessnetworkproducts.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=646

Preacher

I have a Linksys WRT54GS with the HyperWRT firmware. You can double the signal strength with that software.

Thrax

You don't want an omni. Get a Backfire or Yagi directional.

Mr_Bojingles

Thanks for the input, I'll have to look into those options as well.

edcentric

I have seen people get Bluetooth signals from almost a mile with a Yagi. It needs to be tuned to your freq. and well shielded from side noise.