Wifi backhaul link?

[surroundedbytrees]

First post here hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to connect my network with my buddys. We both have our own ISP connections but rather then using the Internet and our limited data, bandwidth I'd like to establish a wifi link between our houses. This would allow me to move large file (ie movies) over the connection without impacting our internet connectivity/speeds. It would also be nice that if either of our ISP's go down then those affected local devices would simply connect over the wifi link and go out on the others ISP. From what I understand I think I'm trying to create a OLSR Mesh ?.... Currently he's using a Linksys unit running DD-WRT on his side and I have a Ubiquiti Picostation on my side.....currently his house is on the 192.168.2.x subnet and I'm on th 192.168.1.x side

Thanks in advance.

 

[thiggins]

No, you're not constructing a mesh network.

First, if you're really surrounded by trees and don't have a clear line-of-sight link between your two homes, wireless isn't going to work. Or if it does, your throughput will be pretty low.

You can achieve a local backhaul network. But the goal of using each other's ISP connection as an auto-failover backup would be quite difficult.

 

[surroundedbytrees]

The 'surroundedbytrees' is more for the fact that I live in a city known as "The Forest City" (London, Ontario). the attached picture if from herehttp://wiki.openwrt.org/inbox/mesh.olsr

 

[stevech]

Photo attachment?

 

[surroundedbytrees]

Photo attachment?

Actually it is a screen capture from the link

 

[stevech]

sorry - - I was looking for a map/photo or some such to get an idea of the extent of clutter in the path

 

[sparkgates]

I think you have re configure your configuration then restart.While connecting wireless back-haul it depend on your range recheck dns setting or proxy access point preferred dns.

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