Gordon Henderson wrote:

In article ,
GymRatZ wrote:

Ian Stirling wrote:


With megawatts of power, maybe, otherwise basically not.

I suppose there is no possibility of a mast to give you LOS to top of hill,
a box on the crest?
Power to the box would be nice, but solar could be made to work.

Sadly not.
It's already occupied by Portishead police "village" and a big comms tower.
Don't think they'd give me mast space for a domestic illegal LAN extension.


The parabolic dishes, yagis, etc. aren't neccessarily illegal. The ones
we I've used in the past certianly aren't.

The coms tower is unlikely to be owned by the police - look at the base
if you can. A lot of them are owned by NTL, Crown Castle or Western Power
(in the SW)

However, the price rises exponentially the higher you go - start at 4K
pa for 10m off the ground...


:¬(


Indeed.


I did consider sighting up a suitablly positioned large building in
S.Wales and reflecting the signal as both sites have a clear view across
the River Severn.


You get problems with wave bounce in the fresnel zone.


I think it's just going to have to be VPN and a slow as old chips DSL
connection.
But that's missing the spirit of adventure.


Yes, but it does work... If you are going down this route, get the same
make of router at each end... In theory, VPN protocolls are "standard"
but I've had problems with one vendors interpretation of standards
vs. another.

I've used Draytak Vigor routers to build multi-site VPNs recently with
good results, but that aren't the cheapest. Some units do have phone
sockets though, and although I haven't used them, I have a friend who
has setup a set of small offices using them and he says it's works great
and saves their phone bills...


Another thougfht. BT has a 'virtual ethernet' product that runs at
around 8-Mbps, using latest DSL type technology.

Gordon