300 foot wireless?

Greetings All,
I found this group from a reccommendation in the basic electronics
group. To save 50 bucks a month I need to get the DSL signal to travel
300 feet. I have a shop where the DSL comes in. It is 300 feet from my
house. The area is rural and there are only a couple trees between the
buildings. I can get a completely obstruction free view from the shop
to the house if I mount an antenna on the roof of each building. It
looks like I can use parabolic antennas to send the signals. One web
site has instructions for a "poorman's wifi" using cookware for the
parabolic antennas. Is this a good way to go? Can I just buy a
wireless router and put the antennas at the focal points of parabolic
cookware? This idea really appeals to me just for the humor factor.
Thank You,
Eric R Snow

Eric R Snow wrote:
> Greetings All,
> I found this group from a reccommendation in the basic electronics
> group. To save 50 bucks a month I need to get the DSL signal to travel
> 300 feet. I have a shop where the DSL comes in. It is 300 feet from my
> house. The area is rural and there are only a couple trees between the
> buildings. I can get a completely obstruction free view from the shop
> to the house if I mount an antenna on the roof of each building. It
> looks like I can use parabolic antennas to send the signals. One web
> site has instructions for a "poorman's wifi" using cookware for the
> parabolic antennas. Is this a good way to go? Can I just buy a
> wireless router and put the antennas at the focal points of parabolic
> cookware? This idea really appeals to me just for the humor factor.
> Thank You,
> Eric R Snow

Hows your shop get it's power? Mine was about the same distance away from
the house, was powered from the same electric as the house (same leg off the
transformer/one meter, then to house and to garage/shop). Had sat in the
garage, but wanted to get internet in the house (we were also in northern
idaho, ie lots of green stuff in the summer, and lots of snow in the winter,
both mess up wireless big time)

Ended up using the netgear powerline bridge
(http://www.netgear.com/Products/Powe...tAdapters.aspx
under $120 at best buy)....

Peter Pan wrote:
> Eric R Snow wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>> I found this group from a reccommendation in the basic electronics
>> group. To save 50 bucks a month I need to get the DSL signal to travel
>> 300 feet. I have a shop where the DSL comes in. It is 300 feet from my
>> house. The area is rural and there are only a couple trees between the
>> buildings. I can get a completely obstruction free view from the shop
>> to the house if I mount an antenna on the roof of each building. It
>> looks like I can use parabolic antennas to send the signals. One web
>> site has instructions for a "poorman's wifi" using cookware for the
>> parabolic antennas. Is this a good way to go? Can I just buy a
>> wireless router and put the antennas at the focal points of parabolic
>> cookware? This idea really appeals to me just for the humor factor.
>> Thank You,
>> Eric R Snow
>
> Hows your shop get it's power? Mine was about the same distance away from
> the house, was powered from the same electric as the house (same leg off the
> transformer/one meter, then to house and to garage/shop). Had sat in the
> garage, but wanted to get internet in the house (we were also in northern
> idaho, ie lots of green stuff in the summer, and lots of snow in the winter,
> both mess up wireless big time)
>
> Ended up using the netgear powerline bridge
> (http://www.netgear.com/Products/Powe...tAdapters.aspx
> under $120 at best buy)....
>
>
I've got a wireless one working at over 800' with a wrt54g at the dsl
end and a buffalo 'converter' (sorry; don't have the model number
handy) at the other. The buffalo has a simple 90 degree reflector copied
from one of the 'free wifi' sites; I made it using thin aluminum roof
flashing & insulation foam to hold its shape & to attach to the antenna.

If you've got clear line of site & can put simple reflectors on both
units, 300' should be very easy & cheap.