[RKDinOKC]

My nephew built a big house in a neighborhood that the power goes off frequently. The gas for the house is propane. He buried a huge tank and installed a gauge/inlet for the propane company to fill it from his front gate without ever entering his property. He also put in a generator shed with generators that run off propane to keep the entire house live when the power goes out. The only alert he gets is when the propane tank starts running low.

I set up his internet. He was too far off grid to get any type of wired access. Hooked him up with 3 wireless internet providers each offering 2 Gigabit access. Put a mac mini in running Internet Gateway that ganged the three connections to make the internet much faster than any one or even two connections.

His house was built with that metal stud framing, giant faraday cage. Installed a wired network of 3 Airport base stations in bridge mode strategically placed to get good wifi anywhere in the house. Only problem we had was that one of his kids kept getting in the wiring closet and shutting off the mac mini that was the main router.

At the same time I setup his house I was trying and failed to extend my wifi to include the three houses across my back fence. The idea was the company would pay for my access to provide interent for the founder, president, and major stockholder, that live directly behind me in the next neighborhood. Problem was there is low twist per foot buried and above ground electrical and phone lines on my property easement following that border. Too much noise leakage creates a very effective wifi barrier. Wifi, even 5 watts and yagi antennas would not go more than 10 ft past the border. Finally after calling in several speciallist we all gave up and pay for internet to each house.

It's kind of interesting. You can stand i my yard with a wifi sniffer and see a bunch of the networks in my neighborhood. Step through the gate crossing the border and all my neighborhoods wifi networks disappear and the networks in the neighborhood behind me appear. It's like walking thru a door. Step back thru the gate those networks disappear and my neighborhood's networks appear.

When I had the high powered wifi I tried to get the neighbors on either side of me to just join my network instead of having to pay for their own internet and they wouldn't do it. Just don't understand. Offered them free internet, they passed and pay for their own from the same provider. Maybe I should have offered the internet at a discount instead of free? I checked and with the high powered wifi I could go 4 houses in any direction except across my back fence with full signal.

Now that everyone in the neighborhood is running their own wifi and I am running standard base stations instead of the high powered stuff I have to run 2 routers to get full signal across my own house. Still can't see any of the networks across my back fence.