Hello all:
I've been a reader of this forum for a few years, but I now have a unique situation that I could use some advice on.
I live in an apartment building that provides a wireless internet connection as part of the price of living there. As you might imagine, the network is junk. I could pay $50 a month to get a decent private internet connection set up but I have a potential alternative that would be easier on the wallet in the long term.
I live across the street from the university that I attend. If I'm on campus, I can log on and use their network, courtesy of tuition. I can barely pickup their network with both my desktop (ASUS PCE-N15 wireless card) and my cellphone (Motorola MB525). Is it possible to use some sort of high sensitivity antenna to use this network?
I'm certainly no networking expert, but intuition would tell be that the limited broadcast power on my end would limit the up speed (or is my logic flawed?). I don't mind that so much if I could get decent downspeed from it. At the university the network bandwidth usually sits around 10-20Mbps, I'd be happy to get half that here if possible.
The university network is secured using 802.1x EAP. I can attempt to log on to the network the way things are now but I always fail to connect due to the low signal strength.
So ultimately my question is: Can I buy some equipment (big antenna, etc) that would allow me to connect to the university net?
Some things I've looked at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164047
(Not sure if this would work without administrative rights to the network, which I don't have)
Or this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833381014&Tpk=gamebase
As a replacement to my current wireless card.
Thanks in advance for any guidance!
I've been a reader of this forum for a few years, but I now have a unique situation that I could use some advice on.
I live in an apartment building that provides a wireless internet connection as part of the price of living there. As you might imagine, the network is junk. I could pay $50 a month to get a decent private internet connection set up but I have a potential alternative that would be easier on the wallet in the long term.
I live across the street from the university that I attend. If I'm on campus, I can log on and use their network, courtesy of tuition. I can barely pickup their network with both my desktop (ASUS PCE-N15 wireless card) and my cellphone (Motorola MB525). Is it possible to use some sort of high sensitivity antenna to use this network?
I'm certainly no networking expert, but intuition would tell be that the limited broadcast power on my end would limit the up speed (or is my logic flawed?). I don't mind that so much if I could get decent downspeed from it. At the university the network bandwidth usually sits around 10-20Mbps, I'd be happy to get half that here if possible.
The university network is secured using 802.1x EAP. I can attempt to log on to the network the way things are now but I always fail to connect due to the low signal strength.
So ultimately my question is: Can I buy some equipment (big antenna, etc) that would allow me to connect to the university net?
Some things I've looked at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164047
(Not sure if this would work without administrative rights to the network, which I don't have)
Or this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833381014&Tpk=gamebase
As a replacement to my current wireless card.
Thanks in advance for any guidance!
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