Connecting two LAN's?!?

[john.griffiths1]

Hello everybody!
I have a LAN and so does my friend who lives about 200 Metres down the road. I want to be able to connect to his LAN and see his files, play network games etc. and have the full functions of a lan as if he were in the same building. I plan to use this message as a sort of Blog tracking my "progress" towards the achieving this.
So far myself and you guys have come up with the following options:

• Long cable (from my router to his PC. The wire would be impracticale and would probably loose signal???)
  
• WiMax (the Wi-fi with 20-40Km of range. How secure will this be?Not released until end of 2005. Can i accomodate it into my budget of -£47) http://www.intel.com/netcomms/technologies/wimax/ Be sure to watch the very pretty demo video!
  
• Cantenna (www.cantenna.com or the home made version on http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html) (Could i cope with building one of these??? Probably not.)
  
• Move our house's closer together(Could be difficult for postman)

Any others would be greatly appreciated!
What would be ideal for me would be a system wereby I could go to any PC on any LAN, type in my I.P, subnet and DNS address, and access my lovely network. Is this possible and is it secure?
I have a "budget" of about -£79 and a few princely, shiny buttons. I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to networks so go easy on me and my feeble little mind or it will melt and I will be forced to make silly faces like this:

Which annoy me as much as you. Thanks again for any help, John

 

[Chipmonk]

Install a couple of SFTP servers on each end, then both of you can control who sees what and who can see anything at all

 

[anthonyrstanley]

My newlly found friend on the Air Force Instant messeging says:

Zach (12:16:56 PM) >> i would say, install a ftp server, more secure, and he can control what eachother see
Zach (12:17:05 PM) >> or a SFTP server
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And i agree and yes he is the man!

 

[Chipmonk]

neither of your solutions are feasable, unless youve got about six thousand feet of coax... oh and some coax networking equipment, which im sure u dont

 

[anthonyrstanley]

neither of your solutions are feasable, unless youve got about six thousand feet of coax... oh and some coax networking equipment, which im sure u dont

Wow Chip i may have to give you the smilly face treatment for that statement you just put.

 

[anthonyrstanley]

Also Yhei external anntena!

or a wireless access point:

Also lookup Cantenna.

Some cheap wierd fixerz

 

[john.griffiths1]

Righhhttyyyy then. So how do i go about setting up a SFTP? Will it offer the same sort of performance as a LAN? This Cantenna seems like a really cool idea, has anybody had any experience with it? Will we be able to have shared folders & play games ('Cause were geeks!) Thanks very much for all your help you guys. When I said i was a newbie, read = Complete and utter idiot.

 

[The Astroman]

Wireless. If you can wait a bit (end of 2005) a new standard calle WiMax will come out. It's range will vary between 20 and 40 kilometers. I think that's enough for you!

 

[anthonyrstanley]

Ask chipmonk on the SFTP. He suggested it.

 

[Geoff]

i think WiMAX will be a little out of your budget. All i know is that our schools are all connected together (which are miles apart) and they can share files just like a LAN. If you could hook up a WAN somehow, then that would work.

 

[john.griffiths1]

i think WiMAX will be a little out of your budget. All i know is that our schools are all connected together (which are miles apart) and they can share files just like a LAN. If you could hook up a WAN somehow, then that would work.

Setting up satalites for a WAN would be cheaper than WiMax? How can this be?