Antenna for wireless G

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I have a wireless-G router in the living room and would like to be able to use my laptop in the bedroom which is forty feet away.
Has anyone ever used an antenna for the router? If so how does it work?

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<dold@AntennaXfo.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:ccum8e$rrc$1@blue.rahul.net...
> Yukon <wallswall@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I have a wireless-G router in the living room and would like to be able
> > to use my laptop in the bedroom which is forty feet away. Has anyone
> > ever used an antenna for the router? If so how does it work?
>
> Forty feet should work without asssistance, depending on where you put the
> router (it should be up high) and what the walls are made of.
>
> You can add some free reflectors to the router.
> < http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence [...] rength.htm >
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> Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5
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Thanks Clarence. I will try this.