Share broadband with neighbor who cant get broadband. No LOS 400Meters. How?

ElizKenny

I want to share my broadband with a neighbor who cant get broadband.
Is this possible.
The distance from house to house is 400 Meters.
There are 3 rows of trees and two houses and gardens between us.
There is no live of site, as the trees are very high and i dont really want to be putting stuff up on the roof.
Also the other neighbors wont want to be involved, so the signal has to get from A to B without touching the ground between so to speak.

djburchgrove

No chance at all.

djburchgrove

well, actually. you could buy a power line adapter from Amazon with built in WiFi extender. you would also need to be able to run an extension cable from their house to yours. not sure you could get a 400 m one but maybe 8 or 9 all weather 50m ones. plug 1 in beside your modem, other in on neighbours end of extension lead. then they would have WiFi.

however you would need to be in an area completely rural, where nobody would tamper with the leads and you'd probably need permission from local authority.

far fetched but the only way I think it would be possible.

Wabbit Ears

You're talking about just shy of a half kilometer. With direct line of sight it woudl be do-able with hi gain transmitters and amplifier receivers that you could roof-mount.

But considering there are two houses and trees in the way, realistically, not a chance without running cable or fibre.

can they get 4g in their area? Your be amazed at how far a basic dataplan and a tethered phone or 4g router will get your average home light internet user.

Cuddlesworth

djburchgrove wrote: »

well, actually. you could buy a power line adapter from Amazon with built in WiFi extender. you would also need to be able to run an extension cable from their house to yours. not sure you could get a 400 m one but maybe 8 or 9 all weather 50m ones. plug 1 in beside your modem, other in on neighbours end of extension lead. then they would have WiFi.

however you would need to be in an area completely rural, where nobody would tamper with the leads and you'd probably need permission from local authority.

far fetched but the only way I think it would be possible.

Normally I'd just ignore stuff like this, but thats just plain bloody dangerous for so many reasons.

There are only two options for 400 metres. Run fibre or use wireless with line of sight between both. Neither are a option for the OP.

godskitchen

Crazy suggestions on here.

As for high gain antenna, rubbish. 400meters with Los (line of sight) is nothing.

It will be possible at this distance without Los but if you don't want anything on the roof then your neighbours don't get Internet.

In short, what your asking can't be done by you.

yuloni

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ED E

If the other party is serious get them to erect a pole high enough that you can hit it from the side of your house.

ElizKenny

Thanks for the help.
We just finished trying to set it up now and it seems to be working.
We got a powerline adaptor and he put a router on the other end of it in my shed right at the window.
Shed is only 10M from my house, but its only made of light wood so the router is now as good as outside.
Went back to his house and hes picking it up.
Hes getting over 10Mbps (speedtest.net) on it consistently at the moment.
We'll see how that lasts during the week

godskitchen

10mb at 400 meters from inside his house with a consumer grade router?

That's impressive or extremely lucky

ElizKenny

godskitchen wrote: »

10mb at 400 meters from inside his house with a consumer grade router?

That's impressive or extremely lucky

Well its almost 60 in our house so he has a significant drop there.
But it is better than nothing i suppose.
As far as i know they are just two old routers that he had. We just said we would give it a try as nothing else to do today.

Apogee

ElizKenny wrote: »

Thanks for the help.
We just finished trying to set it up now and it seems to be working.
We got a powerline adaptor and he put a router on the other end of it in my shed right at the window.
Shed is only 10M from my house, but its only made of light wood so the router is now as good as outside.
Went back to his house and hes picking it up.
Hes getting over 10Mbps (speedtest.net) on it consistently at the moment.
We'll see how that lasts during the week

Perhaps replacing the powerline adapter with a run of cat5/6 cable and mounting the router antenna external to the shed could help increase the speed.

http://www.l-com.com/content/how-to-upgrade-antennas-on-your-WiFi-access-point%20.html

Bog Standard User

build a good wokfi and your neighbour might be able

a friend made one he picks up everyone's wifi signal in his housing estate