Long Distance WiFi - No Line of Sight

[chadwickvm]

My newest apartment is approximately 2 blocks from the beach. I would like to be able to work from a very specific spot and get WiFi from my apartment. Considering I do not have line of sight to my apartment, blockage includes at least 3 buildings and possibly some trees, is there a feasible setup to enable this? I was considering a yagi or parabolic grid antenna at the house and some form of portable directional antenna for my Macbook.

 

[superninja12]

no chance man or you need to have 10k+ on a powerfull antenna or something.

how about a bigger phone data limit and set up your phone as a hotspot.

 

[USAFRet]

My newest apartment is approximately 2 blocks from the beach. I would like to be able to work from a very specific spot and get WiFi from my apartment. Considering I do not have line of sight to my apartment, blockage includes at least 3 buildings and possibly some trees, is there a feasible setup to enable this? I was considering a yagi or parabolic grid antenna at the house and some form of portable directional antenna for my Macbook.

Consider this:
In those 3 buildings, there are 20-50-100 other WiFi sources. All closer than yours.

 

[pingu_Z]

Buildings are hard to broadcast through even with a tight angle dish running in the 900MHZ spectrum cranked to full you would be hard pressed to make that go. I don't know what you do for work but email, PDF's and Docx, files are tiny at best and unless you are working with 50 MB+ excel sheets on a constant basis you would be better off spending an extra $30 a month on a beefy cellphone data plan. If you constantly deal with large files it may be worth wile using RDP or some form or remote software to work on the files remotely but....?
Really you would be better off arranging a work schedule that would let you work from dusk to late night so you can actually enjoy a few hours at the beach and not have to do your work there.

 

[chadwickvm]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I had figured that it would be completely impossible, but though I'd ask just in case. The data plan for my phone is pretty big already but even then, it's not possible to do video conferencing on it with the signal available at the beach. Granted, I wasn't sure any type of wifi would get it either, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

To answer a previous question to me, I already can pick my work schedule, the point of working from the beach is to have a relaxing and enjoyable environment to work from.

I'll just plan to do only certain bits of work at the beach and everything that requires any actual bandwidth (files, audio, video, code upload/download) at the house.
Cheers!

 

[RealBeast]

Yeah, I would do 4G from the beach as far as you can.

But damn man, I've had some pretty easy high paying jobs in my time but none of them let me video conference from the beach.

Consider yourself lucky! :lol:

 

[chadwickvm]

Yeah, I would do 4G from the beach as far as you can.

But damn man, I've had some pretty easy high paying jobs in my time but none of them let me video conference from the beach.

Consider yourself lucky! :lol:

I won't comment on the "easy" or "high paying" part, but I will cop up to the "lucky!" Hahaha, have a good one. :lol: