D-Link cheapie from target

Serious overkill. But for the price why not.

You will be able to pick and chose what networks you want to connect to LOL

I picked up a belkin USB adapter and a Dlink external antenna. (big square) think it was like a 300mW... Gets to be a little annoying when 12-15 wireless networks popup. (all the properties here are .5-1 acre in size also)

so 1500-2000mW is totally overkill? good to know lol :)

Yeah, pretty sure thats like 10 times standard transceiver power. Plus a yagi style antenna is going to be carrying some serious signal enhancement, you probably wont even need the amp.

The wireless router probably will not work as most do not have wireless bridge functions. Especially Dlink. If yours has the ability, then do it up :)

(Or you could build your own antenna out of some scrap you have laying around.)

Tell me more neuro :)

lol
this is gonna be fun to watch haha

Building your own requires a wireless device with an external antenna. While I never built my own antenna (for 802.11, I have done it for VHF and UHF though), if you get a usb wireless adapter or a PCI device with antennas you can build reflectors to increase signal strength but reducing the beamwidth.

I had a belkin G USB stick it came with a 3' usb cable and a port to stand it up on your desk. I experimented with some shapes around the house (piece of a floor lamp with antenna sticking through center) but generally the best reception comes a V shaped design maintaining wavelength sepcification. Most 2.4GHz run on quarterDipole size as long as you stick wit ha mutliple of that you will be okay. Some prefer quarter, some prefer halfdipoles. I never found much of a difference in my experiments though.

Here is a good read with some links
http://martybugs.net/wireless/rubberducky.cgi

If you are going to go with a router you can build parabolic dishes for hte antennas, get a DDRWRT capable router that allows increasing power... DDWRT should also have wireless bridge functions. But I am not 100% certain of that.