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Hey folks,
I just wanted to say that I have successfully connected my neighbour of
500ft away to my wireless network using a USB 802.11b dongle inside a
cantenna. My greatest thanks and appreciation go out Jeff Liebermann and
Bob Alston for their advice and ideas - I would never have thought that a
$25 USB dongle and an old can would have been able to do this for us... That
is just too cool.
I will try to post take some pictures the next time I am at the neighbour's
house, so you can see the rig we have set up. It's interesting that we are
just on the fringe of being able to use just a cantenna with no AP-side
antenna's... we often get "low signal" or "no signal" but enough bandwidth
for good downloading (the Network control panel settings show 11Mbs
connection - not sure if it's lying or not, since we have such poor "signal"
readings) and that's all that matters to us. I am still amazed that it
worked at all!!!
So, thanks again guys!
Tim
Hey folks,
I just wanted to say that I have successfully connected my neighbour of
500ft away to my wireless network using a USB 802.11b dongle inside a
cantenna. My greatest thanks and appreciation go out Jeff Liebermann and
Bob Alston for their advice and ideas - I would never have thought that a
$25 USB dongle and an old can would have been able to do this for us... That
is just too cool.
I will try to post take some pictures the next time I am at the neighbour's
house, so you can see the rig we have set up. It's interesting that we are
just on the fringe of being able to use just a cantenna with no AP-side
antenna's... we often get "low signal" or "no signal" but enough bandwidth
for good downloading (the Network control panel settings show 11Mbs
connection - not sure if it's lying or not, since we have such poor "signal"
readings) and that's all that matters to us. I am still amazed that it
worked at all!!!
So, thanks again guys!
Tim