[TechAssist] Re: Wireless Router Extender
- From: Edward Gaidies <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:19:39 -0400
Jeff;
I use D-Link.
The Mac has a Signal Meter..it's more a of a blockage problem then a
signal strength.
The house is over 100 years old, Who knows what's in the walls.
-Ed-
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Ed Gaidies
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On 26-Sep-04, at 6:48 PM, Intrepid Video Support wrote:
> Ed,Mine is a Lynksys wireless. I can go outside the house and still
> have a connection. I'm sure it's more
> than 30ft.
> Jeff
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tel-Tek" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 8:38 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gary McCartney
>>
>> McCartney Electronics
>> Guelph Ontario Canada
>> Est. 1984
>> email: gary (at) number63.ca
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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