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If you have line of site to your sisters house, there are relatively inexpensive technical solution. However to do it leagally, there maybe signifiant municipal regulations that need to be mitigated. Also, most residential broad band contract prohibit sharing of service in that way. You may need to create your own isp. Not impossible but maybe not worth the headache.

Do your parents have cell phone coverage? If so, that might be simpler.

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Is that just they ban sharing your credentials with the neighbours.

If you could set up a ptp link (id say Omni on sisters house and a directional one at the parents) as a bridge from parents to sisters house. 2Km with LOS is trivial to achieve.

As your effectively bridging the two houses any host in the parents house would be part of the same network and be seen as such.

As in the US the phone company's responsibility ends at the demarc trying to stop how your internal wiring is configured seems impossible:-)

There's a tall hill between them, so I'll have to check to see if LOS can be established.

Ah might be an issue then as would any trees in the way.

>most residential broad band contract prohibit sharing of service in that way

Or just ignore that and don't tell them. as long as you're not doing this as a business or at large scale I couldn't possibly imagine they would notice.

They do have cell coverage, but it's trivial to blow through the data caps ("unlimited" is a lie... they throttle you significantly).

Even if my parents got rid of their $120/mo satellite tv package, they couldn't replace it with a streaming service because of the data costs.

Check out 4gantennashop.com.

They offer decent rates for rural LTE with fairly large caps.

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