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this may not be all correct... but all i know is that my neighbours can get highspeed but we cant.. so we going to hook up a modded router (antenna's that can broadcast 2.5 miles?) then recive it with a antenna in a tin can hooked up to another router... for us to get highspeed.. i'll post more info when i have it...

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this may not be all correct... but all i know is that my neighbours can get highspeed but we cant.. so we going to hook up a modded router (antenna's that can broadcast 2.5 miles?) then recive it with a antenna in a tin can hooked up to another router... for us to get highspeed.. i'll post more info when i have it...

I really don't think your going to have much luck, well not 2.5 miles with a tin can/cantenna or waveguide antenna to give it it's real name. Your best bet would be to get two 20.5dBi Parabolic Mesh Antenna for around £50 for the two or take two satellite dishes and mount biquad antenna's to them.

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Not completely relevant but kind of.

The N standard uses the 2.4Ghz spectrum and 5GHz spectrum at the same time?

If so, and you wanted to make use of N, you would need at the very least 2 antennas connected to the transmitter and receiver, one configured for 2.4Ghz the other for 5Ghz, correct?

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Well, You could do what i did. I got this pci wireless card and alot of that antenna cable and made it run so far.. and then i attached a dish onto the end of it by cutting into it and screwed it into a normal dish.. it worked for me.. but i had only 1 mile to get a signal.. and I use N and i get a 74% connection...

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That could be a problem if he dose not own the land, I know there is a book out there called wireless hacks an they demonstrated a fairly reliable signal over a 1 - 3 mile distance using some very cool antennas but as far as i know they tested it in the height of summer under "ideal" conditions, so when the weather turns for the worst your signal will most likely go from usable to unusable.

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ok i described this all wrong... here we go... there is the dish at at our neighbours house 1 km away then a wireless n router in his house sending out dchp and all that jazz.. and it is using the dish i'm guessing.. so then it is broadcasting out.. then our wireless g router w/ modded antenna is picking up the signal and redistributing it around my house... the wireless g router has different firmware on it 2.. just to let u know..

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I don't see why this wouldn't work I've fashioned a usb wireless adapter in a waterproof container to the arm of an old satalite dish facing back into the dish and made a long usb cable out of shielded cat 5 cable worked great and I recieved wifi signals from as far as 6 miles away (as the crow flies) my connection at 6 miles was only 34 percent but none the less I could connect My best connection was 2.5 miles away at a 94 percent connection I will say this though Weather plays a huge roll in the connection percentage snow seemed to be the worst as I would completely loose signal however when raining it was only about a 21 percent drop...still effected connection speed though..its also best to mount the modded wifi dish on a rotating platform so that you can dial in the best connection and I found that the optimal distance between the usb wifi adapter and dish was approx 2' 41/2" this was using a Netgear wifi usb adapter results will vary as I purchased a linksys usb wifi adapter and couldn't even get enough signal to connect...not really sure why as I figured linksys would be better but anyway hope this helps..

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UBIQUITI NANOBRIDGE M5 are like $80 bucks a piece and are good for 20km at 150Mbps. Their weatherproof too, for the money you can't really go wrong and at least you get something that works reliably.

Ubiquiti is a great brand and they work very well.

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