My friend lives on the river. On one side is a house that can't get cable internet, and lost even basic wired phone service (barely worked for years, went out completely for area during a flood). My friend has been getting by on a cellular data widget, but it's only good for email and service is flaky. 2000ft away across the river is another friend's house and business, with wicked-fast unlimited internet.
I'd like to think a pair of linux raspberry pi's with the right config, maybe tied to a pair of alfa usb-wifi devices with directional antennas could make this perpetual run-around with the lack-of-service-providers go away and bring the modern world to the river house, but I'm only passingly familiar with the elements involved. Is this a viable start? Am I even looking at the right gear? Is there any simpler way to make a rock-solid internet bridge? Ideally the setup would be to just a pair of headless boxes, plug in power and ethernet on both ends, and have it act as a long cable, letting the desktop computer on one end get DHCP service from existing router at other end. I happen to have a pair of unused pi's, anything else I would have to buy anyway, I'm wide open to any suggestions if you have experience doing this kind of function with different gear. noj _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
