Hello, I'm visiting my parents who live in the middle of nowhere. When I was still living with them I convinced them to buy a Hughes internet satellite dish, which provides them with some high latency broadband. My dad has an old Motorola two-way radio antenna which reaches at least two stories into the air. We live in a sparsely populated, but relatively flat part of Arkansas, where mostly just my relatives live. In the interest of bringing this faster than dial-up (we can only connect at 28kbps due to bad phone lines that will never be repaired at this rate) to the rest of my family members who live nearby. I'd need it to transmit at least a mile away.
So my question: What's the highest strength 802.11 b-g transmitter I can buy, and is it possible to use my dad's existing radio antenna, or at least the pole it's mounted on.
I'm interested in this idea, because if it's viable, then my family members can all pool their resources and potentially buy a second satellite dish which I could traffic merge with the current equipment to potentially cut the page load times.