wifi 450-500 feet, almost line of sight, anyone done this?

[ted leslie]

I need to clarify,
only one end is under my control,
the other end is just a portable with wifi, and if its not good wifi (built in),
then a pcmcia or usb wifi stick.

i bought a panasonic tough book (sand/splash resistant, and bright outdoor screen),
and myself and a bunch of the home owners on my street
own a beach lot on Georgian Bay, 
infront and diagonal from my house,
so its about 450'-500' away,
I simply want to wifi from there (back to my house),
my 3 year old linksys wifi and asus Eee
come up easily 150' short, probably closer to 250',
but then I didnt put the linksys on my roof.

just hoping there was something good, easy, powerful,
that would go 600' (out of the box),
so i don't have to fuss much (e.g. buy, return, try another, repeat ...)

i can have directional at the house, pointed right at where i would be
(on the beach), save for some vegetation in the way,
(how much would 20 feet thick of bushes affect wifi? i hope little),
but at the beach , it will just be a PC, oriented in any random way.




-tl

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:59:02 -0400
David J Patrick <djp-tnsZcVQxgqO2dHQpreyxbg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> ted leslie wrote:
> > i have a need to use wifi 450-500 feet away from the base station,
> > and the point 500' away is almost line of site, just a few bushes in between.
> 
> > i also saw a "dish" wifi, that is supposed to double range,
> > but thats sounds fishy, 
> not at all. directional reflectors (ideally parabolic) are sound 
> application, not goofy at all.
> > i have often wondered about these range boosters,
> > given, you have to get the signal back to the unit from the pc,
> > so I find these booster hard to believe.
> The parabolic focuses the send AND recieve signals, so it's effect 
> should be balanced. Just find yourself a pair of olde satellite dishes 
> and either extend the antennas of your routers, or better yet, use two 
> usb WiFi sticks, weatherproofed and mounted at the focal point of the 
> dishes. Mount them as High as you dare. Now point the dishes at each other.
> In order to optimize the aim of the dishes, you'll want the best signal 
> analysis software you can find.
> good luck,
> djp
> 
> ps. as jamon said; don't write off the pringles can approach.
> > 
> 
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