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Yes that was my first thought. Offer to pay half the bill and pick up a giant yagi antenna for twenty bucks. Only downside is it's technically illegal to combin
by Causality1 5y ago
Yes that was my first thought. Offer to pay half the bill and pick up a giant yagi antenna for twenty bucks. Only downside is it's technically illegal to combine that much power and that much gain but I've known people who did it for a decade with no FCC call.
- afavour 5y agoDepending on how far we’re talking you could also just run network cable…
- labawi 5y agoFor a link, you mainly need signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). With high gain antennas you simultaneously increase mutual reception and decrease reception of other signals, giving a triple boost to your signal-to-noise ratio if you can use it on both sides (sender: +1 txpower; receiver: +1 signal reception, +1 interference rejection), so that is what you should aim for. Transmit power does comparatively little (sender only: +1 txpower, -? amplifier noise), while blanketing the area with useless power (both in-band and out-of-band²) that can get you detected and affect other devices. Especially if you driver you transmitter near the limit (or use a shitty amplifier, broadband antenna) further increasing out-of-band transmissions, which is the part that is likely to get you a visit from regulators. ¹ gain ~ directionality; symmetric in both reception and transmission ² out-of-band - frequencies other than intended ones