Network a WISP

A friend is caretaker for a property that's thinking of getting a Wireless ISP. He lives in a guest house and I was wondering if it's possible to hook up a wireless router to the "radio" the company would be installing. Since it's a couple hundred feet away, I'm assuming if you can, it would be a N router. Also, he has a 5 year old desktop without wifi. So what would we need? Something we can get from NewEgg. Any suggestions would be great.

TIA

 

Kind of confused, you want to hook the router to a radio?????

You will need a wireless adapter for your esktop so it can connect to the router wirelessly.

 

"Radio" was how the tech put it. I imagine it's a type of modem since when we mention wireless, he came back with adding a router. They'll be placing a (900 Mhz?) tranmistter across the lake (Tahoe) with an antennea on the main house and I assume hardwire the main houses computer. I just wanted to make sure it's similar to getting dsl with a modem and adding a router which I'm familar with.

Have any suggestions for the gear that would work, such as a Linksys router and wireless adaptor.

 

A modem is not a radio, is a MOdulator-DEModulator. The router has a radio to connect wirelessly with your desktop or laptop.

Anyway, you will most likely have a transceiver (900MHz) in the house, which will connect to the modem and then from the modem to the router.

May be the modem with be combined with a radio, I don't know, ask whoever is doing all this installation.

Linksys is good and cheal, check here below the one fit your needs; then go to newegg or other web sites for a price and order it.

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Sate...nksys/Common/VisitorWrapper&lid=2777395123H30

And you might as well match the router putting a Linksys wireless adapter in the desktop like the one below;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124069

 

If you have a wireless radio being installed it will have a router attached to it. That router will run into a switch. From that switch you could plug in your own access point into it to get a wifi signal in the area. Then get a wireless pci card or wireless usb antenna for the desktop computer.

 

Thanks guys!

 

Ok, and don't forget to share with us how the ISP company (or whoever) will manage the 900MHz microwave link into the house, I would love to hear about that. The 900MHz is used by GSM in Europe, is there where you are?

 

I think he's in Lake Tahoe

 

Oh, shut, is true he said that, but 900MHz, I wonder what wireless service is that. May be CDMA in the 850MHz.

 

Yup.

I've been to the website (not much there) but forget the name of the company right now and I can't find it on Google. I'll pass it on after I talk with my friend again. He's at work. Anyway, it's a brand new company that needs 50 new subscribers in order to start installation. They have 25 now and say they should reach that number by the end of the month.

 

Good for them, I hope they get all the required customers, they must charge very expensive, a wireless infrastructure is not cheap.

 

The website for the WISP is...

http://www.skyhighinteractive.com/

Seems expensive or more than I'd want to pay but it is Lake Tahoe.

 

That's what I thought, but the web site doesn't say much about their technology and how they implement it.

You might consider a wireless carrier service around there, there must be a provider offering either GPRS-GSM or EVDO-CDMA.

Like that you would only need a wireless adpater in your pc, that's all.