[TechAssist] Re: Wireless Router Extender
- From: Gary McCartney <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:09:10 -0400
I found the link to the web site showing how to rig the satellite dish
as a networking antenna.
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html
Gary McCartney
McCartney Electronics
Guelph Ontario Canada
Est. 1984
email: gary (at) number63.ca
Tel-Tek wrote:
> Gary;
> Dish will not work..it's 2 way communication. Probably great receiving,
> though.;-)
> I saw one (Linksys) $120, but they don't say how much the range will be
> extended.
>
> -Ed-
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> Tel-Tek Electronics
> Ontario-Canada
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> From: "Gary McCartney" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>Ed, I saw on Tech TV a retail antenna made for what you want. It was an
>>antenna with a few feet of cable to connect to the router. I have also
>>seen articles where people use empty coffee cans and mount an antenna
>>inside it to give further range, directional. If you want to go a long
>>distance, I think I have plans here to use an old discarded mini
>>satellite dish as the antenna.
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>>Gary McCartney
>>
>>McCartney Electronics
>>Guelph Ontario Canada
>>Est. 1984
>>email: gary (at) number63.ca
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>>Tel-Tek Electronics wrote:
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>>>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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