Looking a solution for long range wifi (300 feet with direct line of sight)

[torcator]

I live in an 18 floor corner apartment and I have a good internet service at home (Comcast 75 MB).
But I have a problem, I got a new electric car, and I need to connect it to wifi to get updates.

Unfortunately the building doesn't have wifi service at the lobby or any place near.
But I do have direct line of sight to the car from the balcony and from one of the windows.

So I was thinking on connecting an spare router, configuring it as access point and connecting it with a directional antenna trying to targeting my car. May be a Yagi one.

The distance around 300 feet.

Is it possible?

 

[grana92]

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/ These access points are top quality and they have 120m uninterrupted range (120m when there are no walls or other barriers between the AP and the client) but they are a bit expensive for your situation.. Can't you just ask for a password from someone on the ground floor?

 

[nigelivey]

Ok so you get the signal to the car, how does the car get the signal back to the router.................... Can your cars wifi broadcast 300ft???????? Why not just tether your car to your mobile phone and perform the update?

 

[torcator]

Ok so you get the signal to the car, how does the car get the signal back to the router.................... Can your cars wifi broadcast 300ft???????? Why not just tether your car to your mobile phone and perform the update?

I've tried that last month, and I've used 20 gb of the corporate data plan.
I was doing research and LTE plans are not an option for me. They are super expensive for my use case 🙁

 

[grana92]

20GB? I bet you and your boss had a very pleasant conversation xD. Aside with the jokes. Generally even the routers provided by your ISP have a range of 100ish meters of clear space. So you just might connect the car but you will suffer major bandwidth loss and the update might take forever. Your best case would be to ask someone on the ground floor for their wifi password. Public wifi is also an option but they generally have bandwidth restrictions per client (something like 1Mb/s).

 

[torcator]

I can try to ask someone in the ground, but it's gonna be complicated. My neighbors are old people. Would it be be really hard to explain the idea.

So, from the technological point of view, there only solution is this: https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/ ?

 

[nigelivey]

I can try to ask someone in the ground, but it's gonna be complicated. My neighbors are old people. Would it be be really hard to explain the idea.

So, from the technological point of view, there only solution is this: https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/ ?

You still have the issue that the cars wifi will not cover / may not cover the distance back to the AP. Yes the AP has a long range radio but your car doesn't!

 

[torcator]

You still have the issue that the cars wifi will not cover / may not cover the distance back to the AP. Yes the AP has a long range radio but your car doesn't!

Unfortunately the car doesn't have an ethernet or an usb where I can connect a bundle.

However, is not possible to connect any other device to work as extender/repeater ?

 

[torcator]

Please guys,
I can't believe that there is no solution at all for my problem....

 

[grana92]

If your AP emits signal in a range of 100m and your car is within that range you will be able to establish a connection but it will not utilise your maximum bandwidth.

 

[grana92]

UBNT has some great APs, I'm using them a lot and all of my customers are very satisfied with the WiFi service. Also there is a the UniFi LR (as in long range), it will cost more but the signal is insane. I've tested one of those and they are top class.