[P1] Networking from Across the Street

[Brian]

I think the easiest solution is to hook up an external antenna to your 
neighbors base station if possible.
I seem to remember reading about using one airport to extend the range 
of another I.E. linking together. ( you would need to research this to 
see if it is possible )

I would also recommend that your neighbor turn on the WEP protocols and 
give you access.

Good luck. keep us posted as to results



On Jun 8, 2004, at 3:30 PM, Dave Wyman wrote:

> Short question: does anyone know how I could  boost my neighbor's 
> wireless signal, so that I can receive it in my own home? (Note, this 
> is something my neighbor suggested to me, I'm not trying to illegally 
> tap into her wireless network).
>
> Long background: Our ISP (Comcast) just cut off the use of more than 
> one computer on a single modem. So about a week ago I purchased a 
> AirPort base station (too bad I couldn't wait for the new AirPort 
> Express). I have an AirPort card and the other computers run off the 
> base station from an ethernet connection.
>
> A few days ago I walked outside with my iBook to see how far from our 
> home I could wander before the base station signal faded. Not very 
> far, as it turned out. However, a message popped on my monitor, 
> telling me my neighbor's network across the street was available. A 
> couple days later I saw our neighbor and told her about tapping into 
> her network. She told me that she works for a cable company (not 
> Comcast). She also said she wondered herself how cable companies would 
> make any money once people realized the power they had to network 
> their communities on their own.
>
> My neighbor told me to tap into her network anytime I wanted to, and 
> to cancel my own Comcast account. However, I can't pick up her 
> wireless signal inside my own home, and I spent too much money on and 
> I'm still having too much fun with my own base station to give it up.
>
> Still, I'm tempted to at least think about how I could join my 
> neighbor's network. I fantasize about our block linking all of our 
> computers together, with a few base station-equipped homes and/or 
> ethernet cable strung between houses.
>
> So again my question: how do I boost my neighbor's wireless signal so 
> that I can receive it in my own home? Is there something I can do in 
> my own home to make my iBook's AirPort card more receptive to the 
> wireless signal coming from my neighbor's home? Could my base station 
> somehow pick up my neighbor's signal, maybe by adding an antenna 
> (right now of course my cable modem is plugged into my base station)?
>
> Or do I need to make it happen from my neighbor's home, boosting the 
> output from her wireless network so that it can at least reach my 
> home-office, which is in the front of my house? Could I, for example, 
> add an external antenna to my neighbor's (PC) base station, or could I 
> take my own antenna-equipped base station across the street and 
> somehow add it onto my neighbor's network, to serve as a 
> relay/booseter/networking bridge? If that worked,  but if my 
> neighbor's signal only reached to the front of our house, could I add 
> an AirPort Express to our home, to boost/relay/bridge the signal to 
> the rest of our house?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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