just out of wifi range, solution?

5 Apr 2005 10:37 PM

natural

Greenville SC has free wifi all the way down mainstreet. We live just one block over and I can get the signal but not enough to log on to the net. Any suggestion to boost the signal? I am using a laptop with pci adaptor card. -- natural

6 Apr 2005 12:32 AM

BradReeseCom

You may wish to investigate the Cisco Linksys WPC54G:

http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=507&scid=36

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Brad Reese
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6 Apr 2005 12:57 AM

BradReeseCom

Antenna Basics might be useful to:

http://www.linksys.com/products/images/antennawhtpaper.pdf

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
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6 Apr 2005 1:08 AM

Si Ballenger

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:37:07 GMT, natural
<natural.1n1ega@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:

>
>Greenville SC has free wifi all the way down mainstreet. We live just
>one block over and I can get the signal but not enough to log on to the
>net. Any suggestion to boost the signal? I am using a laptop with pci
>adaptor card.

Get an external wireless adapter and put an antenna on it like
below. You could also get a wireless bridge and put it outside
where it can get a better signal.

http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/antenna.htm

6 Apr 2005 2:29 AM

Ed Williams

This will work great.
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"Si Ballenger" <shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:37:07 GMT, natural
> <natural.1n1ega@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Greenville SC has free wifi all the way down mainstreet. We live just
>>one block over and I can get the signal but not enough to log on to the
>>net. Any suggestion to boost the signal? I am using a laptop with pci
>>adaptor card.
>
> Get an external wireless adapter and put an antenna on it like
> below. You could also get a wireless bridge and put it outside
> where it can get a better signal.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/antenna.htm
>