Reddit mentions of The EZ-Bridge-Lite EZBR-0214+ High Power Outdoor Wireless Point to Point System

If you have a friend that lives in the area with service, offer to wire up the opposing ISP they already have so their house has both services (i.e. if they have Frontier, then order Spectrum). Another option, if there is a community house or common building for the development you could perhaps talk to managers / HOA to work out a deal. This is to get you a dedicated ISP line in your name, although you could share someone's line with the solution I propose.


Then get a point-to-point solution like this:

https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0


Since you need broadband for work, that is the quickest solution until you get it run to your house.


Of the two services, Spectrum is worse on speed and Frontier is unbelievably bad from accurate billing / customer service perspective. I've had both in the Tampa area. Finally settled on Frontier since I need the better upstream. Took over 3 months and a dozen phone calls to get billing correct with them.

Needs more specifics like distance, line-of-sight obstructions, etc.

Assuming it's a fairly clear line of site, and there's no hills and crap in the way (reading the reviews, a few trees and stuff are fine) get two point-to-point antennas. These appear to be well reviewed and easy to setup, good for a mile or two at $200: https://amzn.com/B002K683V0

Then have one end connected to your friend's router/switch, and on your end, have it connected to a switch, or your device directly (or the Internet/input port on a router if you're wanting to setup wireless at your place, with the router set on bridge/repeater mode, DHCP off).

Essentially works like a virtual network cable.

I'm listening! And now that I have looked at what cell modems do, I can't believe we didn't think of this.

The physical location is doable, but I'm not sure I have enough expertise to know how to make those elements work together.

My limited understanding is that I would put the cell modem on the hill, hook it to a wifi router with a beefy antenna pointing down at the camp. The camp end would have another wifi router with an antenna feeding the broadband "input."

The ultimate goal is to be able to access the Internet and place voice calls, which could be VOIP. It would be really nice to be able to do video calls like Skype, FaceTime, or WhatsApp, too.

So, hypothetically, would something like this work:

1. 4G cell modem: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQRHQYT/ref=psdc_284715_t1_B00KTLAEQ0
   
   
2. Two wifi routers. Maybe something like this: https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Wi-Fi-Gigabit-Router-WNDR4300/dp/B008HO9DK4/ref=zg_bs_300189_12?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=M9QF325AYXRX9Q47AE9D
   
   
3. The point-to-point antennae. Would these work? Link: https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0
   
   
4. Appropriate power supply for each element. Most likely 12V solar batteries with whatever capacity of inverter is needed.
   
   
5. Possibly add the optional 3G/4G antennae to the cell modem for a better connection with the cell tower.
   
   The end result is an Internet connection that all of our wifi devices at camp could use, but they would be sharing whatever data plan the SIM in the cell modem has.
   
   Does that seem workable to you?
   
   Thank you very much for the suggestion, falcon5nz! You have already given me better help than two months of trying to talk to industry people!
   
   Edit: The wifi router on the hill would be redundant, wouldn't it? The cell modem could just connect directly to the point-to-point antenna, maybe?

¿ Donde estan? Estan en medio de la nada o hay alguna población cerca?.
¿ Te refieres a que no tienen nada contratado o a que no hay internet disponible en la zona?


Si es lo segundo y si estan cerca de alguna ciudad grande puede haber alguna empresa que les de internet por microondas como mcm telecom o bbs red. Si no,en caso de estar cerca ustedes mismos podrian darse acceso con un airlink . https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

Otra opción es internet satelital.

Look up this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002K683V0/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500431328&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=EZ-Bridge&dpPl=1&dpID=512mBhIpR0L&ref=plSrch

I use this to my barn with metal siding in the way and a door entrance from my basement. Punches right through both, about 300 feet no LOS. Works perfectly. Is LOS better? Sure, it's it all you can go with? No.

do you have any sort of electrified structure there?
you could get an ethernet based tuner at the aerial
then run a ug cat6 cable <100m or fiber <1,000m.
https://www.amazon.com//dp/B002K683V0
if you have line of sight you could do it wirelessly.
https://i.imgur.com/uwfuvhB.jpg
i use 2x2 ethernet based ota tuners, and watch tv
anywhere within reach of my home wifi which can
add another 25m distance from my 35m coax run.
using many popular video streaming systems.

https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

I subscribed to the Subreddit but didn't see an option to post, which is why I hadn't yet.

Anyway, the bridge works fine, as it gives you a visual indicator of signal strength between the transmitter and receiver on it, and the box almost always lights three of the lights, which indicates a fairly strong connection.

The issue seems to me to be in the miscommunication/inefficiency involved in the AT&T router at one end and what I am currently using as a repeater (my decent router that I am using in this manner) on the receiving end. I have tried playing around with different settings, but I have yet for the internet speed on the receiving end to be even in the same ballpark or near the speed that exists on the other end, and exists between the two bridges.

You don't want to go over 300 feet on a cable run. You CAN however, use a wireless bridge, then hang an access point off of the end that goes to your sisters house.

We used these to get a wireless shot for an XBox Lan, and used these as access points in combination with a couple 5 port switches to cover a pretty large area, where I am. Our wireless shot goes for probably a quarter of a mile, but this can easily go farther than that.

A wireless point to point bridge would likely be better for that distance.

Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

Look into line-of-sight optical transmission. No issues with cabling or permits.

Example ($200): https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

This one says it does 3 miles. Might not really need a tower assuming a somewhat clear line of sight (no big hills).

http://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-Power-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1368892109&sr=1-1&keywords=outdoor+wireless+bridge

To provide an actual workable suggestion, you say your sister lives 7 houses down and has no issues with her internet?

You should be able to use her internet with a good directional point to point WiFi bridge setup, assuming your sister would be okay with that.

You can get good basic setups for like $200 everywhere that can definitely provide a stable connection good enough for streaming over that distance.

Random first example I found just to give you an idea:

https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

If a link at or under 100Mb/s provides enough backhaul and the channel space is fairly interference-free, 2.4Ghz is likely what you want. Easiest way would be a pre-paired directional product, like a Ubiquiti LocoM2 Pair, EZ-Bridge-Lite EZBR-0214+ or similar.

"Yes, Streaming on LAN (home network) does not use the WAN connection once the connection is established. assuming that your Slingbox is fully configured. This means everything within your network is properly configured for and connected to your LAN." http://support.slingbox.com/KB/KB-2000575

I'd recommend The EZ-Bridge-Lite EZBR-0214+ https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_dp to get the signal to your barn.

you want an outdoor wireless bridge. expect worse performance or interruption during bad weather

edit: something like this http://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452546388&sr=8-1&keywords=outdoor+wifi+bridge

i have not used this and make no representation of the individual product itself.

Ok cool thank you for the assistance!

Is the below product the point to point wifi link I'm looking for? Can you recommend any others? Preferably lower in price

https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

I use something like this with my neighbor. The EZ-Bridge-Lite EZBR-0214+ High Power Outdoor Wireless Point to Point System https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002K683V0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_MoGzzb0Y6EHQA

I'm thinking about something like this
https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

If thats the case I would see if they would let you pay for a second connection to their property and as long as you can get a Line Of Sight between you and them you should be able to use something like THIS to bounce if to your property pretty easily.

Otherwise as you say you could offer to foot a portion of the bill, the only issue with that is its very easy for one party or the other to tie up the whole line.

What type of connection do they have?

Best solution would be to run a wire from the landlords router to your house. Then you could use a router in access point mode to get the internet to your devices on your own WiFi network. You would have much better WiFi this way.

You could also look into point-to-point wireless if you can't run a cable, but both ways would require access to the landlords equipment.

(Link above is just an example of the type of product. There may be others at different price points that provide the necessary coverage for your usage)

If nothing else, ask the Landlord if they can move their router close to a window that faces your house. I've never heard of a single consumer internet service account with 2 modems.