[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: Wireless repeaters....

[Kori L. <ko...@ma...>]

What might be more effective is to move your wireless base station out 
of the basement.  Or if you cannot do that, locate it in the rafters of 
the basement.  The problem is that when your wireless signal has to go 
through a cement or cement block wall, it ist no going directly (at 
right angles) thru it, but rather has to go on a diagonal - which may 
mean it has to go through several feet of concrete.

2.4 ghz is straight line only.  If you locate the transmitter in the 
ceiling of the basement it will have a lot less cement to go through to 
get to the rest of the house.
   Don't forget that it is a two-way transmission also - your PCMCIA 
card has to be able to make the return trip connection.  Having a 
stronger transmission signal on the base station will not help this.
kori

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From: B Gardner <mai...@mi...>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:46:50 -0500
Subject: [Wirelessdriver-support] Wireless Help, Airport, Bridges and 
Repeaters

I would like to throw this out to everyone hoping I can get some help.

Here is my setup:

Basement office in a single story ranch type home.
Airport Extreme Base Station is located in basement. Connected to the
LAN port of the Airport is a NetGear 8 port router.
A DSL modem is connected to the WAN port on the AP base station. Other
computers downstairs connected to 8 port router.
AL PowerBook has AP Extreme. When working on PB in basement office, I
connect it to the ethernet cable, which is connected to the 8 port
router mentioned above.

Problem:
At times, I need to use the PowerBook upstairs on wireless through the
AP base station but when I do, the signal is weak and unusable.

To help, I connected a 6dbi omnidirectional external antenna to the
Base Station. Helpful but still weak and at times drops signal.

Questions:

Is there a way to set up a "repeater" (or would it be a "bridge")
upstairs to extend a signal from the airport and make the reception
better upstairs?
What third party wireless equipment could be used in this instance?
I know the Airport Express will be useful in this case, but is there a
suitable third party source that will work and is less than 120.00?
(For example, I have seen Belkin bridges as well as Buffalo makes a
repeater. What works with a Mac and Airport?)

I am hoping someone out there has done this and has already figured
this out.

Thanks for reading.

Byron




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