[TechAssist] Re: Wireless Router Extender
- From: "George Afana" <grndmstrg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:49:03 -0700
Ed,
The antenna's gain works both ways unless any electronics attached to it
limits it to one way transmissiom. Since this works two ways the added
extender should also be bi-directional.
George
Afana Electronics
Moreno Valley, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tel-Tek" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 5:38 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Wireless Router Extender
> 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-
>
>
> Tel-Tek Electronics
> Ontario-Canada
>
> teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary McCartney" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 12:43 AM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Wireless Router Extender
>
>
>> 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:
>>> 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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