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Signal Booster / Repeater???
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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I'm helping a family member set up a wireless network in his new house. Basically, the house is huge and he'd like to extend the range of his laptop a bit further beyond the nominal output of his linksys. Has anyone seen an 802.11 repeater / signal booster out there on the market? We were hoping it's just a stand alone thing he can plug in and forget about...
Thanks!
Josh
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To the best of my knowedge (and I'm my school's wireless admin) no such device exists at this time (feel free to correct me on this if I'm wrong). From the what you are asking there only two things you can really do (fortunetly both are fairly simple).
1. Think about the physical location of the Access Point (AP). Is it in central location? Or is placed where the internet line comes in. If that's the case you might think about moving to a different area. Depending on your type of connection, which I'm assuming is either dsl or cable you should see if there is room that as the nessacey outlets that's in a better location. If not, you can easily run another line on your own. to a more central location.
2. The other is changing the setting on the AP. by turning down the speed it's operating at which can give you a larger coverage area. You'll still have full spped internet at 2 Mbps.
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howardm4: Although this site does mention a repeater option on the product. it states clearly that thew con is the "the repeater option is difficult to configure).
He's looking for something simple (he wants something you can just plug in and it works. Maybe that's a possibility in the future, but nothing like that so far. I would be a much easier idea to repostion the access point and lower the speed.
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Maybe putting a heftier antenna on the base station would help? It would require modification of the base station, though.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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There are gain increasing antennas available as well as amplifiers, though the amp are very expensive.
If this were my home and I had the problem you mentioned I would add an additional wireless access point. Assuming you would have two access points, set them both to have the same SIDD (wireless LAN name) and operate on two different channels. Place one on channel 6 and one on channel 11. With this arrangment, your laptop will connect to whichever access point has the strongest signal. Place the two access points at different ends of the house, different floors, whatever locations will help the most.
Tom N.
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
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and the 2 access points would be connected
via what method?
At the least, you'd need an access point
or router that has some sort of bridge
capability like the cheap Linky.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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You would connect the multiple access points via CAT5 cable (100 meters is no problem...) to a router, NOT a hub-you need an active device here to keep from killing what speed you might get.
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Glenn -----
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