How to Share Your Internet With a Neighbour Using TX-E

It comes up more often than you might think. One household has a great internet connection — Starlink, NBN, or a solid 4G setup — and the place next door has nothing usable, or is paying too much for too little.

Internet costs keep rising, and for many households a decent connection is no longer a small line item. Splitting that cost with a neighbour makes genuine financial sense — and with the right setup, it's completely practical.

Maybe it's an elderly neighbour who struggles with the bill. A family member in a granny flat or an adjoining property. A rural neighbour whose place sits just outside decent coverage. Whatever the situation, the question is the same: is there a simple way to share?

With TX-E, yes.

How it works in a suburban setting

In a typical suburban scenario, the distance between two houses isn't the challenge — standard WiFi can often reach a neighbouring property in theory. The problem is walls, fences, and building materials that degrade the signal to the point where it's not actually usable next door.

The same applies in apartment buildings. Concrete floors, walls, and the general density of construction in multi-storey buildings can make sharing a connection between floors or adjoining units surprisingly difficult with standard WiFi. TX-E handles this well — the lower frequency signal passes through the kind of heavy construction materials that apartment buildings are full of.

TX-E solves this cleanly whether you're in a house or a unit. One device sits inside your home near your router. The second device goes in your neighbour's home. The two communicate over WiFi HaLow, which travels through obstacles that standard WiFi can't handle, and your neighbour gets a reliable, usable connection on their end — on their own network name, separate from yours.

How it works in a rural setting

For rural properties, the distances involved are often much greater — across a paddock, over a fence line, between homesteads that might be hundreds of metres apart. This is where TX-E's long-range capability really earns its place.

The setup is identical. One device at the router, one device at the neighbour's end. WiFi HaLow is designed for exactly this kind of distance, and it handles the open terrain between rural properties far better than any standard WiFi solution.

What your neighbour actually gets

On their end, the second TX-E device broadcasts a standard WiFi network — just like any regular router would. Their phones, laptops, and other devices connect to it normally. They don't need to understand how it works or do anything technical. It just works like WiFi.

A quick note on what TX-E is built for

TX-E prioritises reliable, usable coverage over raw speed. If your neighbour is a heavy gamer or regularly transfers very large files, it's worth having that conversation upfront. For everyday use — browsing, streaming, video calls, and general connectivity — it works very well.

Naturally, greater distance and more obstacles between the two devices will have some impact on performance. That's true of any wireless technology. What sets TX-E apart is that even in those more challenging conditions, its capability sits well above anything else in this space — the situations where other solutions give up entirely are often where TX-E still delivers a perfectly usable connection.

Ready to set it up?

The setup process takes a few minutes on each end and doesn't require a technician. If you want to walk through whether it will work for your specific situation, we're happy to help.

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