Boositing my office wireless network

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Mattyg

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Hi there,

I live about 200m away from my office, in a complex which is a few stories higher down the road. I want to be able to connect to my office network fom my apartment but at the moment cannot pick it up.

The twinmos router we are using doesnt seem to project a strong enough signal. Are there other routers which will be able to put me in range, or any other booster devices we can use to receive it?
 
What are you trying to use it with at home - a laptop?

Any thought given to having a base station at each end? That should increase your range as the base stations have more power.

Does your base station have the facility to add an external antenna?
 
Have you tried an ISM Yagi or a grid dish antenna? I pick up signals from over 1km with my Poynting ISM yagi. Get one at your home and your office and point them in the same general direction (or one might work too)
 
yes, i have a wireless pcmcia card in my laptop. i havent tried a grid dish antenna maybe i will get one and see if I can pick up the network else I will have to get 2. my wireless router is pretty basic, not sure how to connect up the router to a dish antenna but sure i can learn, i suppose those are the only options.

another option could be to contact some of the companies who's unsecure wireless connections I can see but cannot connect to. I will pay them a monthly fee for access....
 
they say, unsecure wireless network but i think they got MAC filtering enabled so you cannot connect, or is there a way around this?
 
A few points.
If you dont have LOS between your Laptop's wireless card and your Office AP, over that distance, it definately wont work

Best solution is to get a seperate wireless AP for your home and for your office, and put a small external antenna on them. A 13dBi flat panel will work perfectly.

Get 2x Linksys WRT54G AP's, they'll work great, and they're not too expensive.

Give me a call at Uniterm Direct (http://www.dbg.co.za) 011-9745911 and I'll be able to get everything you need for you.
 
Mattyg said:
yes, i have a wireless pcmcia card in my laptop. i havent tried a grid dish antenna maybe i will get one and see if I can pick up the network else I will have to get 2. my wireless router is pretty basic, not sure how to connect up the router to a dish antenna but sure i can learn, i suppose those are the only options.

another option could be to contact some of the companies who's unsecure wireless connections I can see but cannot connect to. I will pay them a monthly fee for access....
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That might not work, companies are worried about Information Security so I would not be too hopefull there.
 
Take control of the mars project

Sangoma said:
maybe you need one of these:
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/wireless/wifi-amplifier.php

*just kidding*
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This will allow you to increase the power of your wireless card or router from a typical 30 milliwatt transmit output to 1 Watt or more! In addition to increasing the transmit power, the incoming receive signal is also amplified by a separate internal receive circuit. To put this in perspective, 1 Watt at 2.4 GHz and a small parabolic antenna would bounce a signal off the moon or send it thousands of miles into space!! :D
 
If I ever find a person here who puts an amp up, I will track them down and beat them with a stick.
Thats how bad they are... If they weren't hazardous to your health from the RF, they're hazardous to your health because of me :P

edit: not just me... I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to track down a few SSID's and "enlighten" them.
 
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GuRu said:
This will allow you to increase the power of your wireless card or router from a typical 30 milliwatt transmit output to 1 Watt or more! In addition to increasing the transmit power, the incoming receive signal is also amplified by a separate internal receive circuit. To put this in perspective, 1 Watt at 2.4 GHz and a small parabolic antenna would bounce a signal off the moon or send it thousands of miles into space!! :D
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This quote was taken directly off the website (
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/w...i-amplifier.php
) and is not something i would do or expect anyone else to do. Not legal for one and would draw undue attention to the "wireless community projects".
 
Amplifiers work in this way; they amplify the outgoing signal, and amplify the incoming signal. The old adage, gargbage-in, garbage-out is relevenat here.

Don't use an amplifier, rather get a directional antennae, and if your Ap doesn't support an external antenna, get one that does. It will all in all work out cheaper than the amplifier, and give better speeds.

It's not about the power boet, it's about the sensitivity.
 
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