My Nebulous Internet

I've mentioned a couple of times about the whacked Internet connection I have at the cottage, so I thought I'd describe it here, with pictures too. :-)

	Satellite signal gets to us at my brother-in-law's shed (sorry, no TV). Four of use chipped together for the service.
	Signal goes into my brother-in-law's. The building was built shortly after the turn of the century and was, for many years, a small hotel for the fishing camp on the island. Of course it enters a modem and then gets routed back out.
	250 feet of Ethernet cable then snakes through the bushes to an abandoned shed which is closer to our cottage. There's no electricity here so there is also a 200 foot extension cord running from the brother-in-law's shed.
	There it plugs into a wireless router which serves as our access point, and also the access point for my father-in-law. The shed is, maybe, 5X5 with no door and the biggest issues are thunderstorms which almost inevitably resets the router. 200 ft of inducting cable running along the ground with no serge protection is obviously a week point
	We attached some high gain antennas to the router and stuck them out of the back wall of the shed, which really helps.
	About 500 feet away, in our cottage, is another antenna picking up the signal from the router
	And viola! Here we are. It ain't the greatest, but it works pretty good and sitting, looking over the lake while doing my work, is hardly something to complain about.