what wifi extender will connect 150 feet away

MRSSUZANNEC · Mar 1, 2014

I LIVE IN A MOTEL THE WIFI IS 150 FEET FROM MY APARTMENT across a parking lot no building in between IT SHOWS AS A CONNECT WIFI SPOT ON MY PC BUT WON'T CONNECT HOTEL MANAGEMENT SAYS GET A WIFI EXTENDER THERE WIFI IS CISCO LINSKY LLL THROUGH CHARTER CABLE WOULD THE AMPTED WIRELESS HIGH POWERED EXTENDER REC10 WORK WHAT WILL I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MONEY

Guest · Mar 1, 2014

The problem is in your PC wi-fi adaptor. This adaptor simply doesn't have enough power to establish a relible connection to the access point. Try a USB high power wireless adaptor.

Here is one for example selling on e-Bay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alfa-AWUS036NH-802-11n-2000mW-WIRELESS-N-USB-adapter-2w/110483822799?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D163%26meid%3D5177597275878755359%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1088%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D171253201391%26

bill001g · Mar 1, 2014

The hotel management does not have a clue it appears.

If you were to put any form of wifi extender in your room next to the PC why would it get any better signal than your pc. These so called extenders in most case just take a wireless signal in and repeat it back out. If they get a crap signal in they will not even be able to repeat it out.

A wireless extender you would have to place in the middle of the parking lot half way between.

First thing to try is take the PC just outside and see if you get a usable signal. If you do you might be able to able to use a cheap solution like running a USB cable outside to a wireless USB adapter.

Otherwise you are going to need a directional antenna. You could try a USB adapter that lets you replace the antenna and place the directional antenna in the window.

Now if you can place something outside a outdoor direction bridge is the best solution. Something like engenius enh200. This would bring the signal in on a ethernet cable, if you need wireless you would put a small router on the end. In effect you have built your own extender but with a outdoor directional antenna.

MRSSUZANNEC · Mar 1, 2014

bill001g :

The hotel management does not have a clue it appears.

If you were to put any form of wifi extender in your room next to the PC why would it get any better signal than your pc. These so called extenders in most case just take a wireless signal in and repeat it back out. If they get a crap signal in they will not even be able to repeat it out.

A wireless extender you would have to place in the middle of the parking lot half way between.

First thing to try is take the PC just outside and see if you get a usable signal. If you do you might be able to able to use a cheap solution like running a USB cable outside to a wireless USB adapter.

Otherwise you are going to need a directional antenna. You could try a USB adapter that lets you replace the antenna and place the directional antenna in the window.

Now if you can place something outside a outdoor direction bridge is the best solution. Something like engenius enh200. This would bring the signal in on a ethernet cable, if you need wireless you would put a small router on the end. In effect you have built your own extender but with a outdoor directional antenna.

MRSSUZANNEC · Mar 1, 2014

if i am on my porch it has 1 bar and i can't connect they had me call charter cable where they get the wifi they told me there to buy a CISCO extender i go there and they want me to buy netgear THE NETWORK TYPE THE SIGNAL COMES GFROM IS CISCO LINKSYS LLC WHEN I DO BUY SOMETHING WILL I HAVE TO MAKE SURE IT WILL WORK WITH THAT SIGNAL I'M SORRY I'M VERY NEW AT THIS AND I REALLY APPRESHEATE ALL THE HELP U R GIVING ME THANK U FOR THIS AND ANYTHING ELSA U CAN TELL ME I VALUE UR ADVICE you suggested the AWUS036NH USB WIFI ADAPTER IN THE FIRST ANSWER DO I STILL NEED TO GET THAT

Mousemonkey · Mar 1, 2014

Turn your caps lock off please.

bill001g · Mar 1, 2014

If you can't connect at all even when you are outdoors you have a huge issue.

The repeater concept works exactly as if the office manager needed to talk to you from his office and he could not yell loud enough. If someone stood in the middle of the parking lot where they could here him and then yell to you that is what a repeater is.

So to make a repeater work you must find a place you can get good signal from the wireless and put a repeater in that location but it also must be close enough to you so your device can hear the repeated signal. It does not good to put the repeater in the office next to the router.

What you need is something similar to this.

http://www.amazon.com/Hawking-Technology-Wireless-300N-Repeater-HAW2R1/dp/B004MJBONW

The key difference here is the repeater uses a directional antenna to receive the signal rather than omni directional. This is still not the best way to do this but is the simplest. It is cheaper to build your own and it will work better if you want.

You would use a outdoor bridge like
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833168109
and then any indoor wireless router you wanted. You could get this for about $100 total but you would have to put the 2 parts together.

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