Real noob questions

I live in a small rural town in the backwoods. We have phoned internet and a wireless provider. The wireless antenna is about 800 meters away, i can see it from the roof of my house. From the roof to my router (I use coyote on a dial up) measures 4 meters. From what I understand I will need an antenna, cable, a pigtail and a pci wireless card.

So here are the questions:

Antenna -- would a simple wire antenna pointed at the source be adequate ? Or one of these semi-parabolic antennas ? Like these :

Cable - a lot of people here use RG 58, and say that at short distances like 4 meters the loss is very small, 10% below a RG 213 . Is this true ?

Pigtail - any secrets ? Do I need one if I use RG 58 ?

PCI wireless card - is there a cheap , good, all-operating system chipset, like the realtek 8029-8129 are for ethernet ? I intend to use it under linux and windows.

I've browsed dozens of pages, but most just sell. Few explain anything at all. TIA

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Posted 5 years ago by Shadow in Wireless Networking

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