Much thanks to all the replies... Kelsey, Menachem, especially... interesting reading in my future I see. I had a feeling that an interesting, hackworthy question would get some responses. :)
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:30:45PM -0800, kelsey hudson wrote: > Better is to use a high-gain antenna on your side and position it such > that you get maximum coverage. That is, put it as high as you can get > it. I have vaulted ceilings in my living room, and have my WAP mounted > to the wall at the apex of the ceiling. I also have a high gain omni > antenna. I can get wireless signal from my house at the park down the > street. :) This sounds cheaper and better than the more expensive pre-N hardware. We were just on the edge of a/b/g's reach in the first place, with the only adjustment being that I dangled my wap near the window. > > >But back to violating the TOS. I'm envisioning both of us getting these > >"802.11n" WAPs, and pooling our internet connections, so that we each > >get double-speed when we're using it alone. > > That's all fine and dandy, and you can set it up to do load sharing per > packet on your end ... but it's not going to work how you think it will. > The problem is, the other side of that connection also has to be set up > for load sharing, and you can bet your paycheck that the ISP has not set > it up that way for just that very reason -- they don't want people doing > this. Not to mention the fact that because of how most consumer DSLs > work (PPPoE), this implementation is impossible. <snip of some network lingo that went way over my head, but I think I got the gyst.> I should still be able to double my outbound speed, though, yes? My ISP wouldn't know what I was doing. And if my neighbor and I acted as proxies to each other, along with some very clever routing, we should at least be able to optimize the distribution of separate connections. (Which for something like bittorrent would double us up on inbound.) > the linux box will require three ethernet interfaces: one to go to each > dsl, and one to go to the internal network. This is probably the deal-breaker. Wires from one house to the other is not an option. But much food for thought, and your diagram has been permanently archived. Much appreciated. Oh, I did forget to mention that I grandfathered in to a static IP without having to pay the ridiculous rates they want for it. My neighbor is stuck with dynamic ip. Brian -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
