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Posted: 29/08/2008 4:08 PM
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An APC reader sent the following question in to APC by email. Do you know the answer? If so, post it in a comment below and we'll publish the best responses in APC Magazine.
Q. I want to be able to access my paid-for cable internet service wirelessly up to say 100 km away from my home. Why should I have to sign up to a wireless broadband plan when I have cable? Why can't I buy a product that I can connect to my laptop to access my cable connections service back home for free. I understand about wi-fi hotspots but there are very few where I need them.

Terry Humphries

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Posted: 29/08/2008 7:08 PM
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Dan Warne/Terry Humphries wrote:
I want to be able to access my paid-for cable internet service wirelessly up to say 100 km away from my home.
Cable internet is hard wired to your home. It would not be feasible to extend the cable internet with wireless devices because you would expose your internet connection to security issues not to mention interference from other RF sources and possible RF spectrum licensing considerations.
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Radio & Computer Technician
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Posted: 30/08/2008 8:08 AM
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The only pheasable way is to use an RF link which means direct LoS (Line of Sight), towers to elevate and of course the links themselves. Lets just say, you dont have the money to do so and I would be very surprised if LoS was possible.
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Posted: 30/08/2008 3:08 PM
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For the cost of setting this system up you would be better just paying for the wireless broadband, with iPrimus just relaeasing 12GB Wireless Broadband there is really no reason to even postulate a system such as this.
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Any OS as long as it works
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Posted: 17/09/2008 2:09 AM
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Terry,
There is no reason why you cannot access your cable internet wirelessly up to 100Km away from home, however with the ACMA ISM wireless networking equipment that is out there you cannot make it happen.
The only problem you may have with this is the huge cost of making it happen, a small mesh of towers, antennas and the costs of the radio sites, and the costs of the radio licences for transmitters and the microwave link equipment. Having costed radio sites in a design job years ago I suspect you will have little or no change out of $20 million to make it happen.
Far cheaper to use a Wireless broadband offering even the ones that are bad value in excess charges will be cheap in comparison.
Eddie
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Posted: 25/11/2008 3:11 PM
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hello
I think you can go for wi-fi (wireless service) when you have the option of wi-fi .....!!!
http://www.broadband-uk-providers.com
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Posted: 05/01/2009 9:01 PM
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As previous comments say you get what you pay for, if you want access anywhere you have to pay for it.
You can probably link your home connection to another single site within line of site 20km away using a point to point wireless connection, but this will still cost $1000 or more (unless you can make a better cantenna than I can).
An alternative would be to get a cheap low bandwidth connection (I use my vodafone mobile charged at $1 per 5 minutes on a capped plan that I never go close to reaching) or even a dialup connection, or use the WIFI connections that are available and then access your home computer using VNC/MSTSC to access your high bandwidth/unlimited download connection at home.
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Posted: 17/03/2009 3:03 PM
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If you have to pass through a proxy to RDP back to your home machine, try using RDP over IIS. Access your RDP session over HTTP, straight through the proxy. Woot!
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Posted: 18/03/2009 7:03 PM
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dns tunnel back to your routers ip and access it there
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Posted: 18/03/2009 7:03 PM
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google dns tunneling or hak5
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