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Nick(blastic)

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Here is a biggie. My high school is about 500 feet away from my house. I cannot get dsl or cable. My school is on fiber-optic. They run a NT network and i have a valid user name and password. I have access to open hub spots(rj 45). What hardware/software do i need to wireless connect to this NT network? it would kick major ass to download at 275 kb/s instead of 2.6k !!!!!!

-Nick
 
If you were closer it'd be easier, since pretty much all wireless access points have a range of 300 feet at the most without an external antenna.

If you have some money to spend, you can buy 2 wireless access points and 2 directional antennas.

If you're adventurous, you can try and build your own antennas.

The easiest, and cheapest one I've seen is made out of a Pringles can.

You can also use other types of tin cans as shown at http://www.turnpoint.net/...

I think that the cheapest wireless access point is the Linksys WAP11.

It's supposed to be easy to add an external antenna.

Also, the WAP11 can be configured to act as a wireless bridge, basically pretending to be a CAT5 link between 2 points on a network.

Once you get the link up, you could just connect one end to the network at your school, and the other end to your computer at your house. Then specify the access point as the gateway for your computer.

Hope this helps.:p
 
what do i use to plug into the network.... there is a hub with open ports and i need a small wireless transmitter to connect to each access point. then what do i use as a reciever at my home computer.
 
You connect one access point on either side of the link.

One access point(AP) connects to your school's network, the other one can connect to a hub at your house or directly to your computer's ethernet port if it's close enough to your computer.

The AP IS the wireless transciever, both transmitting and recieving because networks are bi-directional.

It'll basically look like this:

Your Computer<-->HUB<-->AP1<-->AP2<-->School's network

or you can take out the hub if you are only going to connect to one computer or if you can't locate the AP close enough to your computer to connect directly to it.

You need direct line of sight between the 2 APs, meaning, the link you are going to make between them can't have any trees or buildings in the way.
 
thanks for your help i have faith that this is going to work. it may sound rediculous but im goinna have to climb a few trees for this one lol.
 
Originally posted by Nick(blastic)
thanks for your help i have faith that this is going to work. it may sound rediculous but im goinna have to climb a few trees for this one lol.
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your welcome. sounds like fun :p
 
Originally posted by Nick(blastic)
how about this problem. the network switch is inside the school. how can an ap to recieve through the walls to the roof
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You need to get the AP as close to the roof as possible. If your school already has equipment on the roof in a cabnet or something, they might let you put the AP in the cabnet.

You'll probably have to run CAT 5 to the roof or almost to the roof to reach the AP.

The cable used to connect an external antenna to an AP is called LMR. You don't want to use too much of this cable to reduce the signal loss, so you need to get the AP as close to the antenna mount as possible.
 
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