wireless network

[cardudenc]

need some info on extending the signal. anyone have any ideas?

 

[chris]

You need a wireless range extender/expander aka "repeater".

My brand preference is linksys. http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/RangeExpanders

 

[cardudenc]

I have a linksys router and looked at that. I wondered how well it worked.
anyone tried the antennas I have seen on ebay?

 

[chris]

I've used the repeaters before. They work great. It will essentially give you the same range that your router currently gives you. Never tried the antennas.

 

[Joe J.]

You need a wireless range extender/expander aka "repeater".

My brand preference is linksys. http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/RangeExpanders

I need to get that for my neighbor for Christmas.....So my internet signal will be stronger.

 

[Bullardbs]

I need to get that for my neighbor for Christmas.....So my internet signal will be stronger.

me too

 

[chris]

Hahah, my sister does that too. Cracks me up when she shows up at the house and says her neighbors signal isn't strong enough and she needs to borrow my PC to do her college work.

 

[cardudenc]

I need to get that for my neighbor for Christmas.....So my internet signal will be stronger.

I saw some antennas online to help receive the signal.

 

[chris]

You could try something like this: http://www.frys.com/product/5286717?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

 

[Joe J.]

You could try something like this: http://www.frys.com/product/5286717?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

whoa. that, is, awesome!! I might do that one instead, since I really dont know for sure which neighbor its coming from.

 

[GubNi]

I sell lots of these.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833998042&cm_re=antenna-_-33-998-042-_-Product

 

[shawn]

You could try something like this: http://www.frys.com/product/5286717?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

You can build one like that out of some PVC pipe or even a Pringles can. Build a waveguide out of a beef stew can: http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/antennas/bigchunk.html or just get a router that supports dd-wrt and crank the antenna power up.

Are you trying to transmit point to point (directional) or just increase range all around?

 

[hobie]

Buffalo has a nice one that was supposedly using the linux open wrt code. But I can't tell if that's still true or not.

J

 

[shawn]

I have one of these running dd-wrt. You really can't beat it for the price. It's got at least one USB port on the back, so I put a memstick in it and mounted /opt and /tmp there, added some local dns entries into a whitelist file on /opt. It's only usb 1, but that's fine for low-bandwidth stuff.

You can always check here. They show a Buffalo WHR-G125 and of course the Linksys WRT54GL.

DD-WRT is definitely not suited to mass adoption, but if you want to geek out on it a little, it will definitely do some cool stuff. Mine can act as a NAS via cifs shares (although it doesn't currently), it does local dns caching with a blacklist. It does some traffic shaping, bandwidth monitoring, ddns, probably a couple of other things I'm forgetting.

 

[pikapp691]

I sell lots of these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833998042&cm_re=antenna-_-33-998-042-_-Product

Does this replace the antenna's on your wireless router or do you connect it up and put it somewhere to boost the existing signal?

 

[RatLabGuy]

I have one of these running dd-wrt. You really can't beat it for the price. It's got at least one USB port on the back, so I put a memstick in it and mounted /opt and /tmp there, added some local dns entries into a whitelist file on /opt. It's only usb 1, but that's fine for low-bandwidth stuff.

You can always check here. They show a Buffalo WHR-G125 and of course the Linksys WRT54GL.

DD-WRT is definitely not suited to mass adoption, but if you want to geek out on it a little, it will definitely do some cool stuff. Mine can act as a NAS via cifs shares (although it doesn't currently), it does local dns caching with a blacklist. It does some traffic shaping, bandwidth monitoring, ddns, probably a couple of other things I'm forgetting.

I understood the word "geek"...

 

[grnsanddemon]

I have one of these running dd-wrt. You really can't beat it for the price.
What kind of tranny is in that?...LOL

 

[Reid]

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You can always check here. They show a BLAH BlAH and of course the Linksys BLAH BLAH.

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let me translate that back to you so you can see what we see.

cool info in this thread though. glad the topic got brought up.

 

[chris]

I understood every bit of what he wrote, but then I am in IT as well.

 

[shawn]

Fawk, I'm not in IT. I went to school for architecture.

 

[Reid]

we're just giving ya a hard time for being techno dork. =)