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aohoribe

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Hi All!
I am out in the country living in a fifth wheel on my friends property. He has a internet connection to his home which sits about 300 yards away from my fifth wheel. How can i extend, boost, receive his internet signal? My main concern is latency.

He gets 50 up and down

Please help all product suggestions are appreciated.
 
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The recommendation for directional antenna although correct is outdated.

The technology has evolved to the point you can get outdoor bridge equipment that has the electronics mounted inside the antenna for about the same price as just the antenna. This is even more true when you include the cost of microwave cable to connect between the router and outdoor antenna. The new technology uses standard ethernet cable between the outdoor unit and your equipment inside.

The antenna part or the unit works the same it just makes it simpler and cheaper to install these devices.

You can get many options from ubiquiti or engenius. They are generically called client-bridge but many of these units can be set to run in many modes. You...
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vmfantom

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This depends on your budget and the local atmospheric conditions.

Looking on eBay, Altelix (a Florida-based reseller of gear sourced from Alibaba suppliers) has a good selection of directional parabolic wifi antennas. Alfa also sells these. You'd pick the gain you feel is necessary, and pair them point-to-point. 5 GHz is more expensive, but those go up to 30 dBi if not higher. 2.4 GHz would probably be fine since you're making do with a shared connection that's only 50/50, so on 40 MHz channel widths SISO, 60 Mbps throughput is probably a good average for what you'd get at zero attenuation. Just get the right connectors between his wifi router, jumper cables, and an indoor/ceiling antenna on your end. You would need to mount the parabolic antennas with line of sight.

You can't do an Ethernet run because its maximum cabling length is 328 feet. You could add two Ethernet extenders to cover the distance if you can run power cords to each extender. MoCA wouldn't work because the attenuation is more than 75 dB at 900+ feet, although preamplifiers might give you a workaround.

Or you could run LMR-600 cable between your friend's wifi router and an antenna in the third wheel. That's about $1 per foot, though.

A consumer range extender wouldn't cover the distance. The free space loss at 900 feet would be at least 90 dB, so your wifi RSSI would be below -65 dBm, which is why you need high gain parabolic antennas for a very narrow beam width with line of sight between the antenna pair.
 
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bill001g

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The recommendation for directional antenna although correct is outdated.

The technology has evolved to the point you can get outdoor bridge equipment that has the electronics mounted inside the antenna for about the same price as just the antenna. This is even more true when you include the cost of microwave cable to connect between the router and outdoor antenna. The new technology uses standard ethernet cable between the outdoor unit and your equipment inside.

The antenna part or the unit works the same it just makes it simpler and cheaper to install these devices.

You can get many options from ubiquiti or engenius. They are generically called client-bridge but many of these units can be set to run in many modes. You should not need a fancy one since many of these devices can go many miles. They have a many that are between $50 and $75. The key will be what radio band you need to use

At that short distance you should be able to put a directional client bridge on your side and it should be able to connect to a router inside the other house. It might not though and then you need a directional bridge on both ends. I would try it on the remote end only to start. This is impossible to predict since it depends on what the house is made out of.
 
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