Sharing ADSL Line for 2 different houses?
Q. I live accross the street of my brother’s house, between us there is a street 30 meters wide and thinking sharing one ADSL line with several computers on both houses. All computers on each house are connected via router already.
Two possible configurations : Wireless or Cabling.
1. What will be the best configuration using Wireless Devices ?
2. We do have a telephone PABX line that connects the 2 houses, is this configurable to connect the ADSL ?
Which one is more reliable ?
Which one is more economic ?
Thanks.
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It depends on how secure you want to be as well as some other factors. Of course anyone will tell you to use a physical cable since this is a guaranteed connection (no connection loss) and it’s more secure. You wont have to really worry about people getting into your network, or securing the wireless as much as you would just a standard 30m cat5 cable.
More economic wise would also be physical cable as well as reliability.
If you are going to go wireless though, I think makes wireless routers that can connect to each other. Pretty expensive though. Again, cabling would be cheaper and more efficient.
Also, you can’t use your PBX line to connect to a DSL -> another house.
1. Wireless Option: Use a bridge, point to point. That is the right way to do it. The cheap way, use an external antenna (directional yaggi) and shoot it across the street. All computers would be controlled by a single router using this method.
2. It is configurable, but your phone company is and should be the only one to go into the PBX Box. This option also has limits as per your wiring “to” each house. As in the number of pairs your lines carry. If you really meant PABX as in the ones that some call centers use, that would be a little overkill.
3. Reliable is only as good as the person who does the work and how much you spend. You get what you pay for.
4. Economics depends on how well you want your shared bandwidth to be. See the end of answer #3.
I hope this helps, good luck
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