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Locally the best bet for electrical supplies is Home Depot unless you know a contractor. I am an electrician by trade but no longer work in construction. I buy all my stuff from Home Depot.

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Is it WI-Max as your internet service?

We have those around here, they shoot the signal off a water tower out of the local town, then you grab the signal with a small dish on the side of your house.

Need to have line of sight though, no trees blocking it.

If it is an actual WIFI signal, you can grab that too.

Is it 500' to the actual source of the signal?
Probably way too much info. But Here is the layout, and the story.

First, I think it's similar to what you described. Same ground based, tower bounced signal.

To backup in my story, I have this internet. Have for 3 years. This is actually to get my dad internet, whom lives further off the road than Me.

My house has the JM next to it. Dad's is further back the lane. The house I circled does not block my line of sight, but blocks dad's. So..internet companies solution is to use my electric,. To power a repeater, to bounce the signal to dad. Red x is proposed repeater antenna. Purple line is signal. From x to My house, approx 500 ft
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OK Johnny Mac that is exactly what I was looking for to help understand this.

Did all kinds of Rural stuff working to get people internet access back when I had my computer service business. There were certain areas that turned out to be dead holes where the different internet service providers could not quite reach.

Does your Dad get good cell phone service at his house? Probably not. Wifi hotspots are available off our cell phones if you have a good signal. Telephone DSL service needs to be at least 3 miles from the switch box in the area, otherwise the signal over the wire drops off.
Wi-Max can push the signal 7 miles if you can get up over the trees.

See there are trees around there, 30' tall trees are hard to send the Wi-Max signal around. About the only idea is if your source signal is 100' up off the ground or higher like a Cell Tower, then you put the reciever dish up on the roof of your Dads house and grab the signal direct as high as you can get it.. As long as you can get line of sight over the trees. Trees are even worse when the leaves all fill out even blocking the signal more.

Not always easy getting service to homes in the Rural areas, If you have a good strong signal there at your home that is a good start. Maybe you can send your Dad a Wifi signal from your home router and and external wifi antenna if you can get it out past the tree line.
 
OK Johnny Mac that is exactly what I was looking for to help understand this.

Did all kinds of Rural stuff working to get people internet access back when I had my computer service business. There were certain areas that turned out to be dead holes where the different internet service providers could not quite reach.

Does your Dad get good cell phone service at his house? Probably not. Wifi hotspots are available off our cell phones if you have a good signal. Telephone DSL service needs to be at least 3 miles from the switch box in the area, otherwise the signal over the wire drops off.
Wi-Max can push the signal 7 miles if you can get up over the trees.

See there are trees around there, 30' tall trees are hard to send the Wi-Max signal around. About the only idea is if your source signal is 100' up off the ground or higher like a Cell Tower, then you put the reciever dish up on the roof of your Dads house and grab the signal direct as high as you can get it.. As long as you can get line of sight over the trees. Trees are even worse when the leaves all fill out even blocking the signal more.

Not always easy getting service to homes in the Rural areas, If you have a good strong signal there at your home that is a good start. Maybe you can send your Dad a Wifi signal from your home router and and external wifi antenna if you can get it out past the tree line.
He has a mini Verizon Hotspot currently but it's pretty shotty. Unfortunately the trees block all the signal between he and I.

He pays via data usage, so even if this wiring is $1200...it would be "paid for" in 1.5 years. Bc he could then also dump satellite TV. I stream TV, tablets, and a VPN work computer constantly off my "wisp" connection, and it does good.
 
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Fiber's cheap... I'd just run it house to house, or should I say what we did between us and #1 Son's house, 3000 feet through the woods. You'll need a glass splicer though for connections... or access to one. Son got this one for $250 off of Ebay, I think they originally retailed for MANY thousands.
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Running the splicer in the woods off three booster packs for enough 120v off one packs inverter.
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Fiber's cheap... I'd just run it house to house, or should I say what we did between us and #1 Son's house, 3000 feet through the woods. You'll need a glass splicer though for connections... or access to one. Son got this one for $250 off of Ebay, I think they originally retailed for MANY thousands.
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That's wild. Ya I'm 1000 from the road, and he is 2000. Did you bury that cable?
 
That's wild. Ya I'm 1000 from the road, and he is 2000. Did you bury that cable?
Pulled it through 3/4" poly pipe, along with a 14/2 direct burial low voltage cable just to make it "fun" in case we needed some DC power later on. I had the 7000' spool of it, so while we were pullin... lol Then a porcupine decided it wanted to chew on the plastic pipe, fiber and wire and his internet went down... so we had to run a ditch witch machine through the woods and bury it all.

6 "wire" fiber is only about 20cents a foot.
 
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Direct Bury ethernet cable can go house to house, Cat 6.

Max distance on that is 325' then it needs to run through a switch and boosted again for the next 325' and so on.

I have that Direct Bury Cat 6 from my house to the shop, but it is only 100 ft. Works Great, going from router in house to wifi router in shop.

Just for the fun of it, ran it through a switch in the shop and out again to some more direct bury Cat 6 for another 150 ft run to the next out storage building.

Have 100 Mps Fiber Optic service here, so there is plenty of push to do the distance.
 
It's actually a lot of fun to see how far you can push the access signals.

But hands down you can't beat the simplicity and reliable service of going directly off the wifi router in the house.

Start sending it out of the house and things start to get complicated.
 
Pulled it through 3/4" poly pipe, along with a 14/2 direct burial low voltage cable just to make it "fun" in case we needed some DC power later on. I had the 7000' spool of it, so while we were pullin... lol Then a porcupine decided it wanted to chew on the plastic pipe, fiber and wire and his internet went down... so we had to run a ditch witch machine through the woods and bury it all.

6 "wire" fiber is only about 20cents a foot.

The nice part about fiber is when lightning strikes it can't jump onto the fiber line like it can on cooper wire, that blows out the computers and routers on the ends of the runs.
 
Thanks everyone for the input. I found THHN at menards for reasonable $. I'm going to actually measure the distance with a wheel this weekend.
 
Just curious @Johnny Mac
What is your line speeds with the service you have now.

Download and Upload?
Speedtest.net

Something Like 5 Mbps line?
Or is it closer to 20 Mbps ?
 
Just curious @Johnny Mac
What is your line speeds with the service you have now.

Download and Upload?
Speedtest.net

Something Like 5 Mbps line?
Or is it closer to 20 Mbps ?
this is what $50 a month gets ya. They have options to upgrade for more, but this streams 2 TV's and 2 Laptops/tablets just fine.
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