Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet?

Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by matt_the_bass on Monday January 01, 2018 @03:24PM (#16047843)

If you have line of site to your sisters house, there are relatively inexpensive technical solution. However to do it leagally, there maybe signifiant municipal regulations that need to be mitigated. Also, most residential broad band contract prohibit sharing of service in that way. You may need to create your own isp. Not impossible but maybe not worth the headache.

Do your parents have cell phone coverage? If so, that might be simpler.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by walshemj on Monday January 01, 2018 @03:42PM (#16047934)

Is that just they ban sharing your credentials with the neighbours.

If you could set up a ptp link (id say Omni on sisters house and a directional one at the parents) as a bridge from parents to sisters house. 2Km with LOS is trivial to achieve.

As your effectively bridging the two houses any host in the parents house would be part of the same network and be seen as such.

As in the US the phone company's responsibility ends at the demarc trying to stop how your internal wiring is configured seems impossible:-)

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by coreyp_1 on Monday January 01, 2018 @04:19PM (#16048109)

There's a tall hill between them, so I'll have to check to see if LOS can be established.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by walshemj on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:15PM (#16049096)

Ah might be an issue then as would any trees in the way.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by f2n on Monday January 01, 2018 @07:34PM (#16048939)

>most residential broad band contract prohibit sharing of service in that way

Or just ignore that and don't tell them. as long as you're not doing this as a business or at large scale I couldn't possibly imagine they would notice.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by coreyp_1 on Monday January 01, 2018 @04:22PM (#16048125)

They do have cell coverage, but it's trivial to blow through the data caps ("unlimited" is a lie... they throttle you significantly).

Even if my parents got rid of their $120/mo satellite tv package, they couldn't replace it with a streaming service because of the data costs.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about my parent's Internet? by amigoingtodie on Monday January 01, 2018 @07:31PM (#16048934)

Check out 4gantennashop.com.

They offer decent rates for rural LTE with fairly large caps.

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