Checkout the Easy Tomato and the Asus RT N16. I don't have the link handy (on a plane), but my browser history has a link to the blog article I wrote about it:
https://richard.esplins.org/siwi/2013/01/25/easy-tomato-and-asus-rt-n16/ But I will echo Michael. I ran a 400 ft wireless G connection between my house and a neighbor's. It worked for browsing, but couldn't handle streaming video or phone calls. Speed was fine, but it was jittery and had a lot of loss. That was done with line-of-site and directional antennas. Good luck, Richard On Sunday, October 27, 2013 16:55:07 Tod Hansmann wrote: > Pluggers, > > I live close enough to my parents that we have had a 180 foot cable > between our houses, run through our backyards and over a mutual > neighbour's fence. This fence was recently replaced, which is having an > affect on our cable. We might just rerun it with a different path in > mind, but we always revisit the ides of wireless LAN. It just needs to > be an ethernet connection between the two houses (or at least we're > hoping to not switch subnets out). > > We do some large file transfers (we back up to each others' houses > daily, for instance) and our internet connections are failover for the > other. So speed is important, and we don't have $1 million budgets, so > some prudence in price is in order. Aside from that, we have line of > site and can go N speeds if needs be. Does anyone have a better > option? Perhaps some optical beam tech out there that you've played > with? Any interesting thoughts on the subject are welcome. > > Cheers, > > -Tod Hansmann <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
