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[KanoMagnesson]

where I live i cannot get cable or dsl and I dont think I can even get satallite, but I'm like 500 yards from the area that gets cable. My mom and dad lives about a quarter of a mile down from me and they can get cable. Could I use a satallite dish like from dish network or direct tv to route the broadband from my mom and dads house to mine??? How could I go about this without losing alot of speed between the 2 and it not cost out the waazoo. Thanks

[bettysue]

Unless I'm misunderstanding your idea, the main issue would be not to get caught!

I know where I live the cable trucks drive through the neighborhood once or twice a month and use whatever tool it is they use to find illegal connections.

I'm not sure of the legalities attached to it, but there must be some.

Not judging or making an opinion, just trying to give a heads up.

betty

[KanoMagnesson]

yeah, I understand it would be illegal, BUT I'm going to be paying the charter bill at my moms house and just simply routing it to mine on a closed network via this dish if I can recieve or transmit with it. Thats where I was hoping one of you guys would know how to or where I could find info on it. I know its been done I just dont know how.:nod:

[KanoMagnesson]

I know you can take the old primestar dishes and convert them into 802.11 wifi wireless antennas but is the setup the same on the dish network one?? im just wanting to setup a point to point thing here for my service to go from my mom and dads to my house.

[Britten]

yeah im pretty sure you can... infact i have seen stuff like that done with wok shaped strainers with a usb wifi nic positioned in front of it....

check out the site

http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

also this site talks about using a direcTV dish... i know direcTV and dish network dishes are interchangable as far as using them for TV.... so i would assume any porabolic item would help forcus the signal.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/15/how-to-build-a-wifi-biquad-dish-antenna/

[Britten]

also, i dont think its illegal... i mean check your AUP and TOS and see ...but as far as my cable company here... you are just creating a network... wither it be LAN or WAN and connecting the cable service to that network. my service even says its ok to use multiple computers on the service.... its in black and white... they would have a hard legal time getting me for it...

[Britten]

plus your wifi surely will be WEP enabled and maynot even broadcast the SSID... so maybe hard to find and connect to to see if you have a router on it... that maybe connected to a cable modem .... if they get in your network to see if you have internect connnectivity and if that connectivity goes through their service... they are gaining illegal entry to your network and i dont think they can use that against you.. remember... its not illegal to have a wifi network... so they would have to prove that your network is connected to their service... and they would have to show how you where doing something wrong

[KanoMagnesson]

thanks for the info man...im just tired of having dialup after having 3.5mb dl speed and 1.5 mb ul speed for over 5 years, move and go to this garbage

[Britten]

no problem man... i understand!!! i moved from Dallas Texas to Beaumont Texas a couple of years ago for work.... i didnt even think to ask if the place i was buying could get cable modem or DSL... well long story short.. i sold the house... ;)