If you have line-of-site to the other location, you might be able to setup a 100MB personal microwave point to point data link. A link like this used to cost thousands of dollars but not any more. Might even be able to do this for less than $500.

 

Google "cantenna", some guy made a wave guide antenna from a Pringles tube that claimed several km range IIRC

Be careful about that word, "Cantenna" because it is a Brand Name for a dummy load.

 

Hams get these, re-flash the eeproms with a new application, hook them up to Yagis, and make a city-wide Hamnet network.

That was a dead link.

 

That was a dead link.

Works for me:

The url is http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/

 

Im sure I'm losing face by asking this here but I admit there are some gaping holes in my knowledge base, and the topic of radio and antennas is a black hole for me. Please excuse my ignorance.

I've searched and found lots of products but none that say "range: x-miles". Everything is rated in dB or dbi and I don't know what to make of it. Also the products I am finding fail to specify exactly what they are, and what additional hardware is required to make them work.

All I want is a router that I can access from a quarter mile down the road. I don't know if there is such a beast.

If I have to have a transmitter and receiver with antennas that is fine. I can place antennas so that they have line of sight with each other.

If you search: "cantenna", there are various items on the web for making high gain directional WiFi antennas out of the large coffee cans.

 

Works for me:

The url is http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/

I think they could be limited the IP.

 

LCOM has a good selection of amplifiers and antennas.

http://www.l-com.com/wireless-booster?cmp=LM1