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Freedom Kira:
I'm not so sure about the radio link. Might get picked up by cops. Not sure how your country treats piracy, but if your home connection is so good, I get the feeling it'd be one of those that arrests for it. Not only that, but that would be a shaky connection. You'd get a ton of interference with a fair amount of wind outside.

Have you looked at basic SFTP? You won't be able to stream, but you could download one episode while watching another, and if your line is fast enough and the file is small enough, it'd finish by the time you finish the first.

If the problem is the weight of the drives that you're carrying back and forth, try getting a USB flash drive with massive capacity. I have one that looks like this but with 64GB.

Sosseres:
The simplest solution ought to be an FTP where you just download stuff prior to watching. If you decide a couple of hours earlier or even days prior this solution works and also leaves the backup plan of just going to physically get it if the net is down. You keep everything organised at home, then you just dump over whatever is planned in the viewing order. Most times you only need like 20 mins warning to watch an entire series since it is as fast as streaming (assuming you stream at full quality).

As others have mentioned, streaming with a large buffer should work, not with a small one. I am doubtful about the speed being up to high bitrate 1080p content though. Even if you only want to watch 720p, sometimes I assume you will get stuck with 1080p as the only alternative to 480p (not that common though).

kitamesume:
@freedom kira
it is possible imo and she mentioned these.

--- Quote from: Mcgreag on October 01, 2011, 06:53:11 PM ---4) About 3km bird path straight through the city center :) Maybe some sort of radio link would be possible, I am living on the 3rd floor on a hill and can almost see the club house from my balcony :-)

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3km straight distance, and he could see the club house from her balcony, meaning nothing in between.

if you check this http://pasadena.net/shootout05/ you'll see that they did it on a mountain range, meaning tons of winds, i dont think winds does affect your signal though, i thought it was the thunders/lightnings or something similar.

--- Quote ---Congratulations to Team iFiber Redwire for their 125 mile unamplified 802.11b link!

This was accomplished with a 12 foot dish on a mountain on the outside of Las Vegas and their remote station with a 10 foot dish on a mountain to the west of St. George Utah.

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edit: lets say she misjudged the distance and it was 4km or 2.5miles in actual, that distance is very achievable even with a 12inches sat dish =P
some people say a 3feet(36inches) sat dish could reach 8miles or 12.9km.

@OP, i'd like to request a pic from your balcony =P

Freedom Kira:
A mountain range does not mean tons of winds. It means a mountain range. Being on a mountain, the team was able to work with less outside interference, because the stuff the wind can kick up does not contribute as much to interference as stuff on the ground might. There's also less stuff around, in general, that would screw around with the signal.

Winds offer more or less interference depending on the amount and type of debris kicked up by the wind. The wind itself is not the problem.

P.S. Way to turn our OP into a female. I would be more careful with the pronoun "she."

Edit: In any case, suggesting that the OP build a satellite dish communication system that extravagant for the simple purpose of streaming videos is unrealistic. Think about all the problems that simply having one would entail. Aside from the amount of electricity and the cost of materials you'd need to cover, you're streaming pirated content over the air through a conspicuous medium. There are probably also legal issues you'd have to look into, just for having the dish itself, but don't quote me on that one.

kitamesume:
lol gender... well you just missed my quote? its just a super sized antenna, so the electricity should be the same. having dishes should be legal but using them is what i'm not sure about, well because you aint using it for getting TV signals i think it shouldnt be illegal.

well they did use a card that outputs 300mw

--- Quote ---One of the FAQ's asks if this is too much power. As it is stated (300mw = 300 milliwatts) no this is not too much power as this is actually a very small amount. Most handheld personal two-way radios can be operated without an FCC license using the FRS, Family Radio Service. The FRS requires that the radio broadcast at less than or equal to .5 watts or 500 mW. Now if someone mistyped and meant to put 300MW = 300 megawatts then yes this would be a large amount of power for someone with little training and no FCC authorization. I don't intend to suggest that the record holders have little training, just that if anyone else wanted to try this they should educate themselves first.
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edit:
cost of building one:
http://www.amazon.com/DIRECTV-060209-Dish-for-DirecTv/dp/B000HRQXQQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317518919&sr=8-1
18" Dish for DirecTv
List Price:    $189.99
Price:    $27.98
You Save:    $162.01 (85%)
+ some mods  for the dish $50~ ish
+ WLAN card $60~ ish http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833281002
= $138 x 2 (total: $276)
note: obviously if you already have a WLan router/card then you can skip the option of buying one.

considering you could also hit the internet through this setup you'd be saving a couple of bucks from getting another line.

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