Long range wireless with router?

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My friend is getting wireless internet, yeah from the same company that wouldn't work for my place so naturally I'm jealous. So I joking said I'd run 3.5miles of cat5 cable over to his house and read the benifits no longer wireless internet back home. Which got him thinking and he came out with this 'grand scheme' after a little while. "Dude if you got a 'one-way router' you could tap into my connection and you'd have it too except you wouldn't have to pay!" I'm naturally skeptical about his little plan there and frankly I doubt I could get a router that efficient from my pocket but since I know next to nothing about networking and the like I'd be interested to see if there's any truth in his statement. Or in otherwords is it possible to use his connection from 3 1/2 miles away with fairly modest Newegg class equipment? Let me know (and it was his idea so I'm not attempting to steal anything just for the record:))
 
I'm sure with that much distance to cover you'd need a fair few repeaters otherwise the signal would just degrade so badly you may as well not have the connection.
Someone confirm this or declare it total rubbish please.
 
No point using cables.

Possibly if you bought all the equipment necessary and you could somehow pwer than use a series of access points (lots and lots of them) to extend the range if the wireless network to reach his house.

Or have an uber powerful directional antenna to extend the range of the signal.
 
I was joking when I mentioned the cable but I was serious about the router possibility. So basically I'd need some heavy duty hardware to get a decent connection right? Big antenna, router, and repeaters??
 
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