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I dont know about satellite stuff, but I have looked a few times at long range wifi setups- 3/4g is too spotty to be reliable where I farm but I'm within a mile or two of my mother in laws place which has a reasonable connection- it's pretty cheap and easy if you can stick up a pole at each end with directional antenna with line of sight, homebuilt solutions seem to be able to reach several miles.
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friendbot2000 posted:What kind of upload/down speeds do you get with that setup Dan? Do you need a cooperating partner to set this up? I don't have a setup yet- its all still theoretical till I'm living down there, and if I'm gonna have to put up a pole for an antenna I could also stick it in a good place for phone reception and run a 4g signal boosting setup From what I have seen/remember, homebuilt solutions tend to go for buying particular routers that can then be firmware hacked to allow for full functions/raise the power a bit. Rather than have a wifi antenna out the back of the router, it just runs up a cable to a directional antenna (bought reasonably cheap or made) which gets pointed at a near identical setup at the other end. Upload/download speed will depend on distance and how much interference you get, but fairly useable- I have only ever used a connection like it once and it was over a few hundred metres but it seemed to respond just fine. But yeah you will need someone with a connection that doesn't mind you using it and having an antenna and bridge set up for it- look up "wifi bridge" and you will see a range of solutions from cutting up pringles cans and hotgluing antenna inside them to expensive systems that claim 20Gbps.
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