Outdoor Wifi antenna signal to router

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rodolfo708

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I am currently connect to the Internet using my outdoor antenna which is connected to my computer using a USB connection. I have great service, very good signal, and the site I am connected to requires a login, and password, which I have. Now I would like to connect other devices, however the antenna is a single dedicated USB cable. I thought all I would need to do is purchase a USB to Ethernet adapter and a Router, however this is not working for me. Can anyone advise me what to do. Again the Wifi signal I receive works very good with my Lenovo E550. The Router I purchased is Netgear N900 Model WNDR4500
 
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The device you want is called a client-bridge. It is designed to receive a wireless signal and convert it to ethernet. Engenius and ubiquiti sell many outdoor bridge devices fairly inexpensively. There are a number of option depending on the radio band you need, the distance and if you can do things like 802.11ac.

You should be able to connect it to the wan port on your router. You want to start out with it running to your pc directly just so things are a little less complex.

Now in theory you should be able to long in with your pc and then any other device connected via the router can also use the connection. It will likely have some kind of timeout where you must at times long in again from the pc before you can use the other...
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The device you want is called a client-bridge. It is designed to receive a wireless signal and convert it to ethernet. Engenius and ubiquiti sell many outdoor bridge devices fairly inexpensively. There are a number of option depending on the radio band you need, the distance and if you can do things like 802.11ac.

You should be able to connect it to the wan port on your router. You want to start out with it running to your pc directly just so things are a little less complex.

Now in theory you should be able to long in with your pc and then any other device connected via the router can also use the connection. It will likely have some kind of timeout where you must at times long in again from the pc before you can use the other devices connected to the router.

This assume the service you are connecting to does not try to prevent you from running mulitple devices. They can make it very difficult to accomplish this if they choose to.
 
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