Wireless bridge for office space

[a_kraker99]

I am wondering how far you think this bridge system will go. Ebay link


It says up to 4 miles but I am sure that is in perfect conditions with no obstuctions. How far could it go with some trees and a few buildings in the way with a distance of about 3/4 mile between the antennas?

I am just trying to save the cost of internet at home and at my business. Plus it would be nice to have a higher speed connection to back up files to an offsite location.

 

[Lamont Cranston]

we had a directional wireless setup for my company a few years back, during the winter time when the trees were bare it worked pretty decent, but during the spring and summer it was down right terrible.

We ended up coughing up over 25k and ran fiber from our main office to our buildings across town to get a good reliable connection.

I would say yes it will probably work, but dont expect anything other than fair signal at best.

 

[a_kraker99]

I cant really tell from the picture but I can just plug the one into a LAN port on the router with internet access and the other one into a wireless router at the other end right? Would I use the WAN port or just a LAN port on the receiving router?
Does anyone else have a better low cost solution that I could try or another bridge that would work?

 

[sirmonkey1985]

you would use the wan port on the second router.. you could setup the second router as an access point so that the main router controls the ip addresses and security..

 

[a_kraker99]

Okay, most wireless routers have an access point mode right? Or is there a certain router I should get. I do have a Hub that I could use but I want to have wireless.