On 01/11/2013 03:34 PM, Smarty wrote:
On 1/11/2013 4:26 PM, Texas Dawg wrote:
The other day I was surfing the web and saw an ad for a
cable modem, which won't do me any good because I don't
have cable, but, the thought crossed my mind, If someone
hooked up a cable modem to a TV antenna, pointed it at
their neighbors house where they had the same setup...
Would you be able to get a network connection between
those two houses?

This might turn out to be an unnecessary expense for me
to try it, if it didn't work, so, I thought someone on
this group might already have the equipment to try it,
without incurring additional expense, or, you might
already know if it will work.

I thought it would be an interesting experiment.

What do you think?

This will not work.

Connecting a TV antenna to your coax input on a cable modem will not
bring in a neighbor's anything. It especially will not bring in another
cable modem configured the same way at your neighbor's house.

A waste of time and money.

It was just a thought. I have Internet through ERF wireless, where
their antenna on my roof is pointed at a tower twelve miles away
at the nearest town.

My nearest neighbor lives 1000 feet away, he's old, and sick.
He likes my Android tablet, so, I was thinking about getting
him one, but, he doesn't have Internet. I thought maybe I could
get him Internet that way, where he could watch Netflix and surf
the web without him paying for Internet at $41.11 per month.