Long range wifi network?
Question by Thrillz: Long range wifi network?
I would like to build a wifi network which could travel 10 miles across country in line of sight.
I have seen 500mw and even 1000mw wifi range extenders and with the right Ariel i believe it could be possible. I been told a 1000mw would push 6 miles and if you mounted a satalite dish and connected it to a wifi network adapter it could go even further
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Answer by Anonymous Coward
You can use a regular AP and then do a pringles can hack on the receiving end that is far away but I don’t know that it will work ten miles away. And if this is for some commercial application, then you are better off using the microwave systems they are hella good.
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You could go 10 miles, with line of sight. Mind you, you would probably need some tower at each end to get that line of sight, depending on terrain.
However, what you are describing is a wireless bridge, to link two sites 10 miles apart, together. You cannot run a laptop at one end, and have a high power AP at the other, because the AP will just not hear the laptop – it is too weak.
Generally to go 10 miles, you need higher power at both ends, high gain antennas and of course that necessary “line of sight” between the two antennas…
Why not just run ZX fiber?
You’d get full gigabit speed full duplex and virtually no latency.