Parabolic Dish

doraemon · 10-28-2005

Hi, my sister live about one block away from my house, and I want to join her network to share files and the internet. I have a parabolic dish (From Dish Network), and thinking to build a parabolic antenna to gain signal from her AP. (I'm poor and try to cut down the budget)

But my question is, there's about six houses in between us and there isn't any clear line of sight in between her house and my hosue. Is it possible for the parabolic antenna to get a good signal from her AP?

Someone please help me on this...really approciated.

Thanks,

renderman · 10-28-2005

In order to cut through 6 houses you would need ample power to fry the brains of your 3 nearest neighboors inside thier skulls.

No line of sight = No connection!

streaker69 · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by doraemon

Hi, my sister live about one block away from my house, and I want to join her network to share files and the internet. I have a parabolic dish (From Dish Network), and thinking to build a parabolic antenna to gain signal from her AP. (I'm poor and try to cut down the budget)

But my question is, there's about six houses in between us and there isn't any clear line of sight in between her house and my hosue. Is it possible for the parabolic antenna to get a good signal from her AP?

Someone please help me on this...really approciated.

Thanks,

You are what we call in the Wifi world, SOL.

CyberSp00k · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by renderman

In order to cut through 6 houses you would need ample power to fry the brains of your 3 nearest neighboors inside thier skulls.

No line of sight = No connection!

Maybe the OP could get neigbors 3 and 4 to erect a repeater on a pole between their houses; after all, the sister will have to be frying the brains of neighbors 4, 5, and 6 for the back-channel.

MikeP928 · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by CyberSp00k

Maybe the OP could get neigbors 3 and 4 to erect a repeater on a pole between their houses; after all, the sister will have to be frying the brains of neighbors 4, 5, and 6 for the back-channel.

What about the neighbors across the street. Put a dual radio AP at the neighbor's and do a bank shot.

We did this in Orlando from the Orange County Convention Center to the School Board office. There was a large building in the way, so we did a 9 mile shot to the top of the Marriott and a 1.5 mile shot on to the School Board. We did it for a 4 day convention. No amps, just yagis. We did 2 point to point links for each hop. 1 vertical polarity and 1 horizonal polarity and trunked them together. We had enough bandwidth to support over 1500 vendors in the exhibition halls.

FYI: do not use schedule 40 PVC pipe for antenna masts, even temp. When the thunderstorm and winds come by, the signal will waver considerably.

MikeP

10-28-2005	#1 (permalink)
doraemon Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1	Parabolic Dish Hi, my sister live about one block away from my house, and I want to join her network to share files and the internet. I have a parabolic dish (From Dish Network), and thinking to build a parabolic antenna to gain signal from her AP. (I'm poor and try to cut down the budget) But my question is, there's about six houses in between us and there isn't any clear line of sight in between her house and my hosue. Is it possible for the parabolic antenna to get a good signal from her AP? Someone please help me on this...really approciated. Thanks,

10-28-2005	#2 (permalink)
renderman Drunken Stumbler Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anywhere but Utah Posts: 1,862	In order to cut through 6 houses you would need ample power to fry the brains of your 3 nearest neighboors inside thier skulls. No line of sight = No connection! __________________ Never drink anything larger than your head! Scaramental Wine Taster for the Church Of WiFi Buy our books! "I reject your reality, and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage CoWF WPA Hash Tables

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