Connecting Two Houses Together

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Proneto911

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Alright lets start off by saying i do have a networking degree. I have done networking but only over LAN so this is new to me. I am trying to connect 2 houses over probably a half mile apart maybe a little more using home routers. We want to be able to see the shared drives i have in place at our house so he doesn't have to re-download close to a TB of info. I have a WNDR3700v2 and he has a linksys E3200 i think not sure. But either way we want to be able to have them connected. Im only used to cisco rack mounts from school and im not about to pay up the but to get all that connected. Is there any way to do this?
 
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yoji
You have a networking degree.. but seem to be saying "if its not CISCO rack mount.. i'm completely lost".. well - that degree was well worth the investment :sarcastic:

What is the issue exactly? the "how to connect"? e.g. run a wire.. or some sort of wireless solution to get you over the 1/2 mile or so? if wireless.. so you have line of sight? or you got a mountain in the way?
Or is that bit OK and you just not sure how to the networky bit.. e.g. are both houses going to be on the same LAN - or you want subnets etc etc etc?
Or both?

TBH.. probably simplest to take your PC (or a removable drive etc) to his house when you go round for a beer once a month or so and sync up ;)

Cheers
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cscpianoman

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VPN? Any number of software solutions can do this. I use neorouter and it works pretty well. There's hamachi and others. If you are talking about a wireless network solution you would need some pretty fancy equipment to cover 0.5 miles
 
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You have a networking degree.. but seem to be saying "if its not CISCO rack mount.. i'm completely lost".. well - that degree was well worth the investment :sarcastic:

What is the issue exactly? the "how to connect"? e.g. run a wire.. or some sort of wireless solution to get you over the 1/2 mile or so? if wireless.. so you have line of sight? or you got a mountain in the way?
Or is that bit OK and you just not sure how to the networky bit.. e.g. are both houses going to be on the same LAN - or you want subnets etc etc etc?
Or both?

TBH.. probably simplest to take your PC (or a removable drive etc) to his house when you go round for a beer once a month or so and sync up ;)

Cheers
 
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A lot of options here and if I was put in this situation I would use the external HDD method which is how it was done before the birth of the network infrastructure.

I would assume that these are going to be two different subnets (Plus one in the middle)

Ethernet cable is out of the questions (Max 100M)
Fiber Cable is possible but the routers most likely won't support it.

The internet? That is another potential however you'll most likely need to buy an IP address for both routers to use if you are using NAT so that your router can forward the information to the correct device. If not then try to setup a custom TCP port to use however not all routers will support the option to add static PAT entries.

Also there's a security risk with using the internet so you may want to look into VPN instead.

Just my two cents ;)

Josh :)
 
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