So I have a buddy that works at a ranch their internet, from what I understand they pay for 3 separate internet accounts each modem plugs in to a router in a region of the ranch giving it some WiFi. Now on top of their main office is a massive antenna (di-pole) on the roof with a SMA connection. They've had a few people come out and look at it and while they can plug it in to a router they don't seem to get anything out from it. Their goal is to have internet come in, plug into a router to create WiFi that will span about 100 yards one direction and about 400 yards in the other direction.
My thought was to have a router/AP from the main location connect to two directional antenna one pointing one direction the other pointing another direction. sending and receiving data from a router/AP based at either location. The AP at either location would have one antenna for the long distance send and receive and the other to provide coverage for that area. I saw the guide online that stated that for point to point access on the 2.4GHz band you could removed DBm from the router and add to the gain (DBi) on the antenna essentially giving you up to 60 watts of power.
This all started because I fixed the router at my buddies house (garage and shop) and connected a range extender to boot the signal inside his house. His theory is "oh hey your a computer guy... fix it".
Any thoughts?
I've got to do this for as cheap as possible, so how should I go about this?
First post, sorry if this seems noob-ish. I was technologically awesome until I found this place and realized I wasn't.