Distance LAN Connection?

Hussein

The famous Latency problem we have in Lebanon doesn't allow us to play games with friends online. This can not be solved and I am not discussing this problem now. What I am thinking of is if my friends are in the same neighborhood, is it possible to make a LAN network? (Just like an internet cafe, it is 3-4 blocks away and they can still provide you with a connection to their network)

It is not a practical solution (obviously) but it is better than nothing :) (way better than playing in the neighborhood's cafe slow pc setups that can only work for chatting but yet they install heavy games)

If it is possible (stretching wires for LAN), how would we make use of our internet connection? (I am subscribed to VISP and have a WAN wire connection to my home router(have 3 pc's connected) and my friend has an OGERO DSL connection)

Maybe we can subscribe for a business package and share the fee and ask the company to deal with the connection.

Just a solution that I would like to discuss, thanks in advance for any help or reply.

Moellica

Actually I didn't understand u much, but I think you want to play games with your neighbours using the LAN instead of the Internet.

if that's what you want, you'll have to add a network card each on his pc and connect the pcs to each others giving them the same subnet address (192.168.1.1 for pc1 and 192.168.1.2 for pc2 for example).

If I answered part of the question that's good,
and If I'm far of that , tell me plz

If you have any questions, I'd be here .

Moellica

Maybe we can subscribe for a business package and share the fee and ask the company to deal with the connection.

This is a Good Solution, You can both get a business package from one company (ISP) and share the internet as well as playing games with each others on the LAN.

rami

Wow that would require one long wire. Why not use a long range wireless connection (or add a wifi amplifier to the existing connection)?

Hussein

Moellica wroteActually I didn't understand u much, but I think you want to play games with your neighbours using the LAN instead of the Internet.

if that's what you want, you'll have to add a network card each on his pc and connect the pcs to each others giving them the same subnet address (192.168.1.1 for pc1 and 192.168.1.2 for pc2 for example).

If I answered part of the question that's good,
and If I'm far of that , tell me plz

If you have any questions, I'd be here .

I know how to connect multiple pc's (I manage 3 in home) but what I wanted is having a LAN connection with friends that are 2-3 blocks away, thanks anyway

Hussein

rami wroteWow that would require one long wire. Why not use a long range wireless connection (or add a wifi amplifier to the existing connection)?

Seems Interesting, I'll think about it :) but wouldn't that affect latency? (I guess it'll still be better than internet latencies)

m0ei

mmm check this: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=121829

I think this will solve the latency problem but you should wait till February :P

Hussein

m0ei wrotemmm check this: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=121829

I think this will solve the latency problem but you should wait till February :P

Worth the wait :) (if it happens :P) anyway, setting up the long range wifi or any other solution will take at least a week of preparation and setup.

jajoja

sure you can do this , satellite on the roof and its done or use fiber optic ...

BashLogic

i dont know why i am bothering to answer this, i guess i am just bored ..

1- you can rent the copper cables from the local operator and install an end to end sdsl modem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Subscriber_Line
(depending on distance and quality of the copper pair, you can get somewhere in between 2mb and 10mb speed)
2- you can pull a fiber connection :P
purchase a single mode (long wave) fiber cable and pull it thru all the way point to point and use gbic/ethernet converters
3- install bridged WIFI repeaters every 20m all the way between you and your mate
4- there are other technical options as well but as for feasability, that is a different subject.

in short, if you have a distance of less than 100m, you have the money and will, you can purchase a 100m ethernet cable and interconnet two points. anything beyond would require more "attention"
I cant imagine how you would secure that no one would cut your 100m ethernet cable.

blah blah blah..

it is sad to see that someone is willing to spend and effort such as this to resolve a gaming issue. my point at this point is that in lebanon, if people would have been collaborative etc, they could have created a multi-mesh network interconnecting in between each other to circumvent the technical, commercial and bureaucratic obstacles but no, everyone wants to play to their own pocket :P

badbyte

You would need a hub after every 100m of network cable to restrengthen the signal only.
Why don't you buy a wireless router like this one here:
http://www.superwarehouse.com/Linksys_Wireless-G_Broadband_Router/WRT54G/ps/190721
Or the one that I have used for meshnetworking.
http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fses.8es.at%2Fwlan%2F&sl=de&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
and here the second part
http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fses.8es.at%2Fwlan2%2F

Cheers.