Hi All,
We're going away in the caravan often enough and have a problem with either the mobile signal not being strong enough or lack of stable enough wireless from "site" provided that you pay for.
Therefore I'm looking in to whether I can add one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-25dBi-2-4GHz-Wireless-WLAN-WiFi-Antenna-RP-SMA-for-Modem-PCI-Card-Router-/221398336876?pt=UK_Computing_Boosters_Extenders_Antennas&hash=item338c5e856c to a spare Netgear DG834 that is just missing it's original antenna.
The main site we stay on have free wifi that you can use in the kids indoor play zone, then you can use the BT WiFi App on your smartphone to log in to your own home wifi account, and legal to boot.
So, if I can add one of these 25dBi RP SMA antenna's to the Netgear DG834, put the antenna on a pole on the side of the caravan, plug the antenna to the router and then switch the router on... will it then pick up any available WiFi points to connect to and then I simply connect and voila I'd have internet in the caravan?
I suppose it's all down to whether or not this will work in a certain required configuration, as ultimately the DG834 won't be getting a direct connection to it, as you would do at home plugged in via the normal home configuration.
Also, would other family members in the caravan be able to connect to the same connection from their phones or tablets via the router or will I have to do some tweaking do you know for this to happen etc?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Rob
We're going away in the caravan often enough and have a problem with either the mobile signal not being strong enough or lack of stable enough wireless from "site" provided that you pay for.
Therefore I'm looking in to whether I can add one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-25dBi-2-4GHz-Wireless-WLAN-WiFi-Antenna-RP-SMA-for-Modem-PCI-Card-Router-/221398336876?pt=UK_Computing_Boosters_Extenders_Antennas&hash=item338c5e856c to a spare Netgear DG834 that is just missing it's original antenna.
The main site we stay on have free wifi that you can use in the kids indoor play zone, then you can use the BT WiFi App on your smartphone to log in to your own home wifi account, and legal to boot.
So, if I can add one of these 25dBi RP SMA antenna's to the Netgear DG834, put the antenna on a pole on the side of the caravan, plug the antenna to the router and then switch the router on... will it then pick up any available WiFi points to connect to and then I simply connect and voila I'd have internet in the caravan?
I suppose it's all down to whether or not this will work in a certain required configuration, as ultimately the DG834 won't be getting a direct connection to it, as you would do at home plugged in via the normal home configuration.
Also, would other family members in the caravan be able to connect to the same connection from their phones or tablets via the router or will I have to do some tweaking do you know for this to happen etc?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Rob