extending wireless range?

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless (More info?)

Rob wrote:
> I have a friend who lives next door to his parents. His parents have a
> Linksys router with 802.11g. We positioned the router in the window
> immediately adjacent to his house. Next door
> in his kitchen we get OK connectivity, the signal is rather low and
> sometimes drops out. Anywhere else in his house he gets nothing. Is the
> best way to deal with this to get a Linksys wireless extender and place it
> in his kitchen opposite the one at his parents house or perhaps the Linksys
> Antenna Stands and relocate the current antenna off the router and mount
> them outside the window perhaps?
> Linksys seems to have a number of products to deal with this and I'm not
> sure which one is the best solution for this scenario. Thanks for any
> ideas.
>
>
>
>
You might try some of the antenna suggestions at this website:
www.freeantennas.com

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Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless (More info?)

> Rob wrote:
> I have a friend who lives next door to his parents. His parents
> have a Linksys router with 802.11g. We positioned the router in the
> window immediately adjacent to his house. Next door
> in his kitchen we get OK connectivity, the signal is rather low and
> sometimes drops out. Anywhere else in his house he gets nothing. Is the
> best way to deal with this to get a Linksys wireless extender
> and place it in his kitchen opposite the one at his parents house or
> perhaps the Linksys Antenna Stands and relocate the current antenna
> off the router and mount them outside the window perhaps?
> Linksys seems to have a number of products to deal with this and I'm
> not sure which one is the best solution for this scenario. Thanks
> for any ideas.
>
>

Depending on what model you have, check this out..
<start paste>
On some models you can boost the transmit power, among other things.
It looks like the "hackable" models are the WRT54G and WAP54G, and the
best firmware upgrade isn't free, but cheap, from SveaSoft-
http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/index.php
Stock power is 28mw, the Svea firmware will let you boost that up to 251mw.
<end paste>

Luckily, I have the WAP54G and was able to do this. It was a whole lot
easier than antennas, gave me about 3-4 times the range, and eliminated a
lot of dead spots.

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless (More info?)

"Peter Pan" <Marcs1102NOSPAM@HotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:33peedF43ctt5U1@individual.net...
>
>> Rob wrote:
>> I have a friend who lives next door to his parents. His parents
>> have a Linksys router with 802.11g. We positioned the router in the
>> window immediately adjacent to his house. Next door
>> in his kitchen we get OK connectivity, the signal is rather low and
>> sometimes drops out. Anywhere else in his house he gets nothing. Is the
>> best way to deal with this to get a Linksys wireless extender
>> and place it in his kitchen opposite the one at his parents house or
>> perhaps the Linksys Antenna Stands and relocate the current antenna
>> off the router and mount them outside the window perhaps?
>> Linksys seems to have a number of products to deal with this and I'm
>> not sure which one is the best solution for this scenario. Thanks
>> for any ideas.
>>
>>
>
> Depending on what model you have, check this out..
> <start paste>
> On some models you can boost the transmit power, among other things.
> It looks like the "hackable" models are the WRT54G and WAP54G, and the
> best firmware upgrade isn't free, but cheap, from SveaSoft-
> http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/index.php
> Stock power is 28mw, the Svea firmware will let you boost that up to
> 251mw.
> <end paste>
>
> Luckily, I have the WAP54G and was able to do this. It was a whole lot
> easier than antennas, gave me about 3-4 times the range, and eliminated a
> lot of dead spots.

If one doesn't want to hack the firmware, what's a good option?

I have a similar situation -- range extension -- and am considering a
WRE54G, or a WAP54G in repeater mode. Having said that, I've seen some
rather scathing appraisals of the WRE54G and am a bit confused regarding the
configuration the WAP54G in repeater mode...it's not clear to me whether it
will work in repeater mode with a WRT54G that has only wireless -- no hard
wired -- client machines connected to it. Anyone have any thoughts? Thx.


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