Would it be possible to share a broadband connection with a firend who lives 3mins walk down the road? Obviously normal routers dont go that far but can it be done at all?

At an affordable cost?

Probably not.

We've tested wireless over about 1/4 mile but that was on a flat field using a cisco access point and expensive aerial. If you have buildings in the way you wouldn't have a strong enough signal

Thats more or less what I was thinking - the tight gits will have to pay for 2 connections

Yes you can share the wireless internet over longer distances also

you can put access points along the way

have a trail of access points all sharing the wireless internet connection

get on msn and I'll tell you in more detail

I reckon you could make one of those parabolic/hyperbolic reflectors, wrap it round your aerial and stick it on the roof at both ends assuming that would give you line-of-sight and you're only going a few dozen metres.

Don't know if you'd need some kind of licence though. Betcha MacGyver could do it.

After thinking about this you can probably do this using a compatible MIMO devices i.e. MIMO router/access point from the same vendor.

I believe they have a range of upto 300m....be aware though the throughput may well be reduced.

Would it be possible to share a broadband connection with a firend who lives 3mins walk down the road? Obviously normal routers dont go that far but can it be done at all?

How far exactly since I have a half dozen cisco engineers in the office today

3mins at my 5+mph pace or 3 mins at slouches or 3mins chasing an dalmation

More details needed - can you get line-of-sight? If so then a few hundred meters is certainly possible. What is the distance?

The distance is between No.2 B77 3NW and No. 23 B77 3LR

Using Multimap I'd say 275yds (251m)

No direct line of sight (one house in between) and about 40ft height difference betwene the houses.

I have a Belkin MIMO Router, my laptop with MIMO card works fine several houses away and down at the local bus stop. But thats less than 275yds. Signal was pretty poor at that point.

Concensus:

Big aerial.

Cat5 Cable over the gardens

Buy 2nd dsl conenction

It can be done but without any line of sight it will cost more than a dsl line for the time period...

Thanks for the advice - I'll tell them both to stop being so tight and get a second connection.

give the house in the middle a wireless Router

and all 3 of you may be able to share the same internet

I think its called creating a Cell

which would also mean if every house in a town had a wireless router they could al share the same internet connection

but would be a bit slow

give the house in the middle a wireless Router

and all 3 of you may be able to share the same internet

I think its called creating a Cell

which would also mean if every house in a town had a wireless router they could al share the same internet connection

but would be a bit slow

There is a white paper kickinn about that with clever or intelligent switches routers bits fo kit a city wide wireless network is easily achievable and very profitable, even if only a small % subscribe.

I remember seeing an article about expanding you wireless range. If I remember rightly they made a directional aerial using a pringles tube and some other things. They successfully boosted it to 1 mile. This is with a line of sight though. I am sure some google searching could bring up some good results.