[TechAssist] Re: Wireless Router Extender

  • From: "John Myers" <myers_tv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:51:28 -0400

Ed,

Doing it by the book will cost some bucks. Not big bucks, but bucks.

Here's what I'd do. Move the router. Preferably a little higher, maybe the
second floor, and run network cable to it. I'd try that first.


John Myers
Myers TV Service        Since 1984
Alliance, OH
ph 330-821-6545
myers_tv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.myerstv.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tel-Tek Electronics" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:11 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Wireless Router Extender


> Anyone have any idea if it's possible to extend the range of a D-Link
> wireless router.  My shop is 30 feet away from my Router, but has 2
> brick walls to contend with. I get no signal in the shop at all. On the
> Mac Laptop. Yet works great anywhere else in the house. Could I extend
> the little antenna on the router to have it outside on a bracket maybe,
> with a coaxial lead. This thing runs at 2.4 gig, so I'm not sure what
> the loading restrictions are. Radio Shack has a Repeater, but I don't
> want to spend another $130, which was the price of the Router.
>
> -Ed-
>
> Tel-Tek Electronics
> teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ontario-Canada
>
>
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