Neighborhood Suggestions?

Thinking about linking two houses, 2000' feet apart, line of sight
available. Would also like to provide wireless coverage between the houses.
I've done internal wireless and think I have a reasonable handle on how it
works. Would appreciate some comments on this:

1) Given the distance and LOS availability, it would seem an Omni stick
antenna at one house and a patch antenna at the other would be all I need,
correct?

2) I'm kind of mixing a bridge (for the house to house connection) and an AP
(for the wireless between house coverage). Any recommendations on how to do
this? Any well known routers do this?

3) Both houses have wired networks with wired router. One house has an
outside world connection via a WISP modem. The idea is to share that
connection with the second house and also do some local area wireless camera
stuff.

4) Any idea on cost? Looks like antennas will be less than $100 each. "G"
routers are about the same. Some decent low loss coax, run of less than
100', should be less than $1/foot. Am I missing anything?

Thanks!

You sound to me like you know what you're doing. FYI at the last wi-fi
"shootout" in Vegas two hams (radio amateurs) won first place with 31 miles
using good antennas. One civil-service engineer in San Diego got 72 miles
with excess power "1 watt" with parabolas, and when reduced to legal limit
still made the trip with much lower throughput. Omni antennas can have
somewhat like a 6 dbi gain if they are the colinear types, that is, one
stacked on top of the other with a phasing unit in between. I routinely get
about 1000 feet with my laptop and a SMC3532 "high power-200 milliwat"
PCMCIA card and if I use a small antenna do better than that. Luck


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> Thinking about linking two houses, 2000' feet apart, line of sight
> available. Would also like to provide wireless coverage between the
houses.
> I've done internal wireless and think I have a reasonable handle on how it
> works. Would appreciate some comments on this:
>
> 1) Given the distance and LOS availability, it would seem an Omni stick
> antenna at one house and a patch antenna at the other would be all I need,
> correct?
>
> 2) I'm kind of mixing a bridge (for the house to house connection) and an
AP
> (for the wireless between house coverage). Any recommendations on how to
do
> this? Any well known routers do this?
>
> 3) Both houses have wired networks with wired router. One house has an
> outside world connection via a WISP modem. The idea is to share that
> connection with the second house and also do some local area wireless
camera
> stuff.
>
> 4) Any idea on cost? Looks like antennas will be less than $100 each. "G"
> routers are about the same. Some decent low loss coax, run of less than
> 100', should be less than $1/foot. Am I missing anything?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>