"Where are you, Steve?" or Wi-fi bridges can help you save on the Internet

a Week ago, got the second higher education, diploma was on the topic of minimization of costs of the enterprise. Including costs for the services of your ISP. In the end, I vytsyganili for their enterprise discount on the grounds that "individuals receive the same service for significantly less money that we've been working on, that hassle-free and generally at night the traffic is not eating". But, you know, the savings in the end are not particularly noticeable.

And then I remembered a story. When we had just moved into a new office, the resident of the house opposite invited us to connect to the access point via wi-fi for a small fee. Fortunately, the house is 30 metres from the office window onto his face. It was 5 years ago. I dug a little Habr for possible solutions and found a couple of posts about wi-fi bridges ("this is it." — I thought):

http://habrahabr.ru/post/193202/
http://habrahabr.ru/post/206282/

What we get: the distance to 25-30 km, and acceptable speed. To make our problem solved, you need a person who lives nearby (25 km) and who does not mind sharing the Internet, for example, for what we pay him access. It's a real savings for companies. From the point of view of legality – do not disturb.

The technology is simple, but to find someone who would want to share the Internet — the most difficult thing in this case. Even more difficult is to find a way to unite these people. But, as we know that the "miracles even as there are" almost immediately I found a sentimental story about a poor provider of the offended person and "adequate dude Stepan."

The text of the story (taken site, which was created in order to help one to find the other):

We, like many, suffered from the monopoly provider and had to pay for Internet in the office 15 000 RUB. the Internet was slow, limited traffic, besides paying the high cost for excess traffic.

We tried Yota, SIM cards, mobile operators and other devices – unfortunately, speed is not enough. And then came the idea to set up a wi-fi bridge with the nearest dwelling house. It turned out that the house, which is 150 meters away from us unlimited Internet with a speed of 80 MBT from the local provider is 800 rubles a month! This package of digital television. It is wi-fi bridge for that distance together with the installation we have found over 12, 000. the Benefit was obvious.

The biggest problem was to find the tenant at home who agree to take the 5 square inches of your window sill for free, unlimited Internet and TV. The solution to this problem was gone a month and a half. The ads at the entrances for a long time did not keep any contact tenants on the Internet by itself was not. The situation was complicated by the fact that we needed a apartment with Windows in our direction, and not less than 6 floors because wi-fi bridge requires line of sight.

The first bypass on apartments gave 2 threats to call the police, 7 failures and the second helped us to find an adequate Stepan, who happily agreed to the proposed conditions and in a couple of days we enjoyed the lightning-fast Internet. And Stepan in addition to high-speed Internet, and digital television.

The situation was only marred by the fact that sometimes a router in the apartment Stepan froze up and had to call him with a request to restart. However, we recently bought him a socket with GSM module and now rebooting the router solved the call to a specific number.
PS the Wizard for setting up wifi bridges said that theoretically, we can distribute the Internet to all the neighbors in the territory and this pipe won't even drop speed. Let's see...

Sound familiar?

Allow yourself a bit of advertising: a website is a convenient landing page with a full description of how and what works, what the equipment you need, how to communicate with those who share/use it. In fact, it is a social network.
Users a little, but this is apparently due to the fact that the resource was launched recently.

In my opinion, great idea and good implementation. Along the way, trying to get comments from the owners.

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru