Quote from: jimates on November 07, 2013, 08:33:45 PM
Thanks so much for the info. I will check out the Yagi antenna.
Here are the Yagi antenna's I use:
http://www.l-com.com/wireless-antenna-24-ghz-12-dbi-stainless-steel-yagi-antenna-7in-n-femaleQuote from: jimates on November 07, 2013, 08:33:45 PMI have two old direct tv dishes to make the biquads is why I elected them. And I chose to do two because I want optimal signal/performance.
If you're using a dish (with biquads) on each house they will have to be aimed and aligned perfectly, because the beam is so tight.
Quote from: jimates on November 07, 2013, 08:33:45 PMthis is my situation.
20+mb wifi from comcast that I want to broadcast ~400 feet. Clear line of sight between antennas.
400ft is not hard to do. If you wanted to do it 100% professionally you could just use a pair of outdoor weatherproof access points like so:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AT0AE4516I've done a pair of those at 3000ft and the speeds were amazing. They come with the PoE power injectors too!
Quote from: jimates on November 07, 2013, 08:33:45 PMAt the source:
modem & router in basement where cable comes in
two wireless devices at this location.
hard wire to second router with antenna to broadcast.
At receiver:
Antenna with repeater, one hard wired device and broadcast wireless
hard wire into house to 3rd repeater to broadcast wireless to 5 devices.
So just two houses? How I would do it:
House 1/source house with cable internet connection. Only 1 router required (not 2 like in your design), plug the
Ubiquiti AP into the router and mount the AP to the outside of the house (set in AP mode).
House 2/receiving house, identical setup. Mount another Ubiquiti AP (set on client bridge mode) on the outside of the house and run a wire from it to a router (if you want them to be on the SAME network as you, i.e. you can share files/printers then plug the house 2 AP cable into one of the LAN ports on the house 2 router, not the WAN port, and disable DHCP. If you want them to have a separate network from you then plug the AP into the WAN port and make sure their routers IP address is on a different subnet then yours, i.e. if your router is 192.168.1.1 then make their router 192.168.2.1). You can connect as many extra routers in this house as you need (if it's a large house/difficult wireless penetration). If connecting additional routers/repeaters by a hard wire/ethernet cable (which is ALWAYS best) then disable DHCP on this repeater router and plug the ethernet cable into the LAN port on this repeater router, not the WAN port. You can obviously do wireless repeaters (like in my original post) in this second house as well. DON'T ever use access points for indoor stuff, they suck, always user a router instead (disable DHCP and plug ethernet into LAN not WAN).
If you wanted to get super freaky you could make the house to house link run on 5ghz, as not to cause any interference to the wireless networks in either house, and also so the point to point AP's receive less interference themselves:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1EA0MV8153-Jamie M.