Hello, It sounds like your neighbors/friends are in the same building. Are they really right next door to your condo...i.e. does your condo share walls with your neighbors? Are you sure wireless won't go thru those walls if you put the AP near a wall and try to access it with a Senao 200mw on the other side? I saw a photo (with signal strength) of somebody who had set up a 24db dish pointed directly at a solid brick wall in order to get access to an AP that was otherwise unavailable to him.
The thing with the powerline adapters is they might not work between condos depending on how the wiring is handled at the junction box. If your condo has a split phase power system you may be out of luck on that route if you aren't on the same phase as the neighbors. How about running a piece of cat5 ethernet cable out one window and in the neighbor's window? You can get cat5 in many colors so you can better disguise it, and its cheap so even if it gets weather damage there's not much to worry about. You can run up to 100m/330ft without violating ethernet's specs. If you do this you could run a little 100mbps LAN amongst yourselves, or just use the ethernet to connect several APs to the DSL/cable modem in your condo. Try the wireless again, then see about cat5 via the window, then maybe power line stuff. -hk At 02:56 PM 10/29/2003 -0600, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: >Hi, >I am moving to a new place next month and I will be talking with my neighbors to >see if I can share 1 more expensive DSL connection (instead of slowest speed >one) with 2 of my neightbors. All three of us would have Dlink 614+ access points. >Here are the main issues: >1. Our wifes will kill us if we drill holes through walls to each other or we >run cables through outside walls (condo assoc. won't allow that either). >2. All three units are next to each other. All three condos have thick thick >walls that will not let wireless signal through. > >Here are the questions: >1. I am the middle unit, so DSL will go under my name and I will have the >router. What powerline adapters should we get (and not blow more than $50 for each)? >2. Will it work? All three of us have separate fuse boxes, but we are on the >same floor (and there are about 15 units on each floor). >3. Would it work if we had another dude from lower floor connect to us? >Thanks for your advice. > >Apolinaras "Apollo" Sinkevicius > >------------------------------------------------- >Visit CARMEL MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT website http://carmelme.com >-- >NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ >Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ >Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > "The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore "Government is like a fire, useful in the fireplace, but if it gets out of it's place, it will consume everything you own." - George Washington -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
