# wireless network nerds help!

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**Created:** [August 11, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wireless-network-nerds-help/15852 "2006-08-11T20:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wireless-network-nerds-help/15852/6 "2006-08-11T23:03:05Z")

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> [@evolve](#):
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> my store in springville has sat. internet. for those unfamiliar with sat internet, it isnt worth its weight in, well, anything.
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> so what the boss asked me do come up with was a solution.
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> try to help me think of something.
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> what he wants to do is go across the street and see if he can get the owner of the store there to get cable, and just hook up a wireless router, my boss will pay for it.
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> what he wants to do is hook up a wireless router to it and grab it from there. lets say our store is 400-500 feet away.
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> running wire is out of the question. what would be ideal is:
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> across the street : cable modem\>wireless router-------something on our end\>router\>computers\>???\>profit

Not that you or anyone else really seems to care, but that is theft of services. Not that big of a deal for an individual, however a business could get fucked.

/covering my ass

NOW, you might want to try a cantenna or something similar, DIY directional antennas may be able to boost the signal enough for you to pick it up.

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