What is the best way to set up a long range (10km) wireless networking?
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probably there are service providers in your area that can offer you WiFi connections across those 10kms with no complexity.\nIf you are trying to do it by yourself, you will need microwave antenas aligned in a careful way at every point which you want to provide conectivity and repeaters, so wireless users can detect those signals
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Someone living near you (within 100 metres) also has a wireless network. If you set yours up, you should be able to choose which network you want - make sure you give your network a meaningful name so that you can recognise it.\n\nIt would be worth finding who this person is, and telling them to enable wireless network security, and that you found their confidential information by mistake, so that they don't have malicious people using that information. And make sure you enable security on yours too.
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There are couple of factors involved here.\n\nI do not know if you know in advance what type of wireless network you'll be connecting to or what type of wireless network you plan on creating, but this information is important.  The network maybe 802.11b network or 802.11g network (backward compatible with 802.11b) or mixture of the two.  Complicating the matter even more is the additional capabilities of the newer wifi models that support 802.11g (Turbo mode) promising speeds ~100+ megabits per second (vs. 54 mbps).  And there's also some models that use the MIMO antenna technology to increase speed and also coverage.\n\nIf these factors are unknown, you should try buy for compatibility.  My suggestion would be to buy a standard 802.11g card made by D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, or any of the other known brand names.  Any 802.11g Turbo speeds are based on proprietary technology and only work for the respective chipset.  \n\nIn my opinion, and I'm speaking as a soldier who spent time in Iraq running a wifi network, the problem is mainly of range and coverage.  It may be necessary to purchase a separate hi-gain antennae to cover the distance between the access point and the laptop.\n\nAs for a USB solution, I would not recommend a USB solution due to its size and it will be awkward sticking out of the laptop.  PC Card is the more elegant solution, UNLESS you need to use it for a desktop as well.\n\nIf you can provide more detail on what type of network this laptop will be added to then I can give you specific recommendations.
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move closer to it. hahaha sorry. you should get in range of the network first. then if you are still having problems, try removing any obstacles that might be interferring with your signal reception. you might also try (if its your network) a wireless repeater to boost signal strength.
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Wireless devices for personal usage are not supposed to be powerful enough.  Also, going by the specs, it is not a personal network anyway.\n\nSo, you need clearances from the controlling organization to operate such a network first of all.\n\nSecondly, since you say it must be wireless, I would guess you need some sort of sattelite service.  I do not personally know how costly that would be.\n\nOnce you have frequency usage/transmission clearances and satellite availability, it should not be an issue to support 200 nodes at all.
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ideally and cheaply put one in the center of the house... this not only gives you good range for single access point but also reduces the amount of signal that goes out to the surrounding area.... so that someone in the street finds it harder to find your signal...\n\nIm not sure what kind of wireless router options Comcast offer... but make sure you get a wireless router/modem option that has strong security / encryption for your signal.. as the signal transmitter will be close to an external wall... \nI have a Belking wireless modem/transmitter for my connection that not only has a strong signal and encryption but also has an option for "Bridge".\n\nThis means i can get more of them and use them in Bridging mode. You then enter the MAC addresses of the routers on either side of it and it will talk  to them (only them)  and pass the signal along.\nNo extra network cables... all you need are places that you can put a extra hardware with a plug socket. I have used this configuration in 4 story houses and it worked fine.\n\nso bascially find a quality router that offers the bridge option.\n\nremember that you WILL need a computer with a nic card in it to set the routers up... if its a laptop even better... as you will need to check them just like any access point that is not directly attached to a network cable.\n\ngood luck.
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through radio waves ... try control panel, wireless network setup wizard
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I'll answer the question generally, since individual products may, as you suggest do a little looking around without telling you. You might want to watch the activity lights when you connect, and try to correlate them with the connection sequence. \n\nI'm assuming here that you have the commonest sort of arrangement, a router (connected to DSL, cable ? etc) and a laptop with a wireless client radio inside. \n\nEvery 'access point' (one type of radio operating mode) must broadcast a beacon signal to tell possible client radios in range something about itself. For 802.11 b/g (and probably n, but I haven't checked) the beacon is broadcast on the only channel that is legal everywhere, channel 10. It's also broadcast with the lowest possible legal speed. This means that any client 802.11 b/g radio in range will be able to hear and understand the beacon. \n\nOnce the client radio hears all the local beacons, it chooses one (usually based on signal strength) that it can interact with. So an 802.11b client radio, which knows nothing about 802.11g format signal types (ie, 'modulation schemes') won't be able to work with an 802.11g access point and both had better be willing to find the highest performance connection possible to both, in this case one of the 802.11b schemes, and not any of the 802.11g expanded schemes. \n\nThis takes a bit of time. but once both ends have discovered the highest performance configuration they can both support, the radios can actually tell the software (drives, operating system, ...) what's going one. At that point, Ip addresses have to be assigned to allow any traffic to and from the Net. If the Operating system is configured to use DHCP, it must contact the DHCP server it's been told about, and 'lease' an IP address from the block of addresses the  ISP has had assigned to it. Next time on the ISP, the IP address assigned might be entirely different. Or the Internet software using the client radio might have been given a permanent IP address (called 'static' address assignment in contrast to the 'dynamic' assignment under DHCP). \n\nAll of this takes time. Which further depends on the connection scheme (speed, modulation, etc) the radios have agreed on. So a marginal 802.11b connection (distant location, poor antenna placement, bad polarization match, ...) might only be able to manage the barest minimum, 1Mbps. A really good 802.11g connection, could use the highest speed possible. which will of course never be as fast as the ads claim. there is a good deal of handshaking and  timeout settings, and error announcement sent back to the other radio when found. \n\nAnd there is a backoff_and_try_a_lower_speed_connection negotiation when there are more than x errors (varies by manufacturer default, but is sometimes changeable by the user for a particular installation in the case of some utilities and software drivers). And an occasional try_to_use_a_better_speed_ connection if we haven't had errors in the most recent y seconds. Either requires another negotiation sequence, which again takes time. \n\nAnd, if the range is marginal (almost too far away) there will not only be automatic up regulation attempts, and perhaps some down regulation attempts, but more a few entire reestablish_the_connection restarts as signal drops below the radio's sensitivity threshold (all real world equipment has them). \n\nAnd some operating systems take their own sweet time to recognize a new device (in Windows, you may have to run the add_new_hardware wizard in the control panel manually. Sometimes the whole add new hardware routine more than once to succeed.  \n\nFinally, on initial start up, most browsers depend not only on hardware initialization, connection negotiation, DHCP negotiation, and so on. But also must do a DNS lookup, and download the current versions of a 'home page' (which may be larded with images from many other sites). It can
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54mb is kind of standard and normally any kind will work. by the way, wireless connection may let you feel slow even it claims 54m.
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Since I don't know what you're using, please copy the words below and paste them into your browser.\n\nhow to extend the range of wireless  reception
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A router.\n\nLinksys is good. \n\nWRT54GS\n\nwww.linksys.com
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Tutorial...\n\nhttp://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
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If you do not move around much, and the AP does not need to provide service to a wider arc, I recommend a directional antennae.\n\nyou may find this website helpful:\n\nhttp://www.cantenna.com
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About.com usually have articles on setting up WLAN\n\nCNET has some good stuff too.
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Simply your best bets are as:\n\n1. Wireless HighSpeed via a cell service like sprint or verizon.\n\n2. Broadband connection via 802.11a,b,g,n from a hotspot\n\n3. Satellite service\n\n\n1 and 3 will work almost anywhere including on the road.\n\n2 will only work were there is a stationary hotspot.
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I tried one many years ago, and it didn't work that well. You should consider setting up a wireless network with a wireless router and a wireless card for your computer.
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Right Click The wereless Icon-> View Available connections-> choose the one which has the best range and then connect it, Dat it