concerning homemade wireless antennas

Hi all,

Alright, I'm fairly new to wireless networking. My query stems from my
current situation, which is thus:

Since I live out in the boonies, the only internet service that you can
get higher than dial-up is satellite- in this case, HughesNet (formerly
DirecWay). When we were forced to switch over to HughesNet, a rather
restrictive bandwidth cap was instituted, something we'd never had a
problem with when we had DirecWay, and the only way to get rid of it is
to upgrade to the higher (and more expensive service).

As a work around, I plan to see if I can instead tap into my neighbor's
wireless network, since he somehow managed to get a T1 installed in his
home (God only knows how); plus, he's already given us permission to do
so, so we don't have to worry about trespassing on his network.

To do this, I'm planning on constructing a homemade coffee-can-type
antenna.

My question is, while all the information I've seen on the net have
shown hooking up these kind of antennas directly to a laptop with an
external wireless card, is there any way to somehow broadcast the
signal from the cantenna itself, throughout the house? For example,
would it be possible to hook it up to a wireless router?

Any assistance is appreciated, and much thanks!


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spacermase wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Alright, I'm fairly new to wireless networking. My query stems from my
> current situation, which is thus:
>
> Since I live out in the boonies, the only internet service that you can
> get higher than dial-up is satellite- in this case, HughesNet (formerly
> DirecWay). When we were forced to switch over to HughesNet, a rather
> restrictive bandwidth cap was instituted, something we'd never had a
> problem with when we had DirecWay, and the only way to get rid of it is
> to upgrade to the higher (and more expensive service).
>
> As a work around, I plan to see if I can instead tap into my neighbor's
> wireless network, since he somehow managed to get a T1 installed in his
> home (God only knows how);

If your willing to pay the price you can get it about anywhere.

plus, he's already given us permission to do
> so, so we don't have to worry about trespassing on his network.
>
> To do this, I'm planning on constructing a homemade coffee-can-type
> antenna.
>
> My question is, while all the information I've seen on the net have
> shown hooking up these kind of antennas directly to a laptop with an
> external wireless card, is there any way to somehow broadcast the
> signal from the cantenna itself,

No

throughout the house? For example,
> would it be possible to hook it up to a wireless router?
>
> Any assistance is appreciated, and much thanks!
>
>
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> View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=23043
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>

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:31:57 -0400, spacermase
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>
>Hi all,
>
>Alright, I'm fairly new to wireless networking. My query stems from my
>current situation, which is thus:
>
>Since I live out in the boonies, the only internet service that you can
>get higher than dial-up is satellite- in this case, HughesNet (formerly
>DirecWay). When we were forced to switch over to HughesNet, a rather
>restrictive bandwidth cap was instituted, something we'd never had a
>problem with when we had DirecWay, and the only way to get rid of it is
>to upgrade to the higher (and more expensive service).
>
>As a work around, I plan to see if I can instead tap into my neighbor's
>wireless network, since he somehow managed to get a T1 installed in his
>home (God only knows how); plus, he's already given us permission to do
>so, so we don't have to worry about trespassing on his network.
>
>To do this, I'm planning on constructing a homemade coffee-can-type
>antenna.
>
>My question is, while all the information I've seen on the net have
>shown hooking up these kind of antennas directly to a laptop with an
>external wireless card, is there any way to somehow broadcast the
>signal from the cantenna itself, throughout the house? For example,
>would it be possible to hook it up to a wireless router?
>
>Any assistance is appreciated, and much thanks!

I'd try mounting a wireless bridge on a tv antenna pole outside
your house, and connect your pc to the bridge.