Boosting wireless signal

[reckedracing]

so my boos is looking to get the wireless router to send a signal all the way to his house, not extremely far, but not too close

apparently the newgear or linksys one we have now sends a faint signal into the closest corner of the house...

any way to boost the signal?

whats the farthest wireless networking has gone so far?

bestbuy said about 100 meters indoors, and 400 meters outdoors?
is that the max's?

 

[posol]

get a repeater... they atre like 50 bucks.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=267

 

[Battle Pope]

Cantenna, bitch!

http://www.cantenna.com/

 

[reckedracing]

is the cantenna for real?

or is it like a tin can with a string attached to it?
lol

 

[reckedracing]

* Maximum wireless signal rate derived from IEEE Standard 802.11g specifications. Actual data throughput will vary. Network conditions and environmental factors, including volume of network traffic, building materials and construction, and network overhead, lower actual data throughput rate. Environmental factors will adversely affect wireless signal range.
** Only Repeats the Wireless Signal of:
1- D-Link AirPlus Xtreme Gâ„¢ DI-624 Wireless Router - Firmware 2.37 (Rev.C) or newer.
2- D-Link AirPlus Xtreme Gâ„¢ DWL-2000AP Wireless Access Point - Firmware 1.56 (Rev.A), 2.06 (Rev. or newer .
3- D-Link AirPlus Xtreme Gâ„¢ DWL-G800AP Wireless Range Extender.

son of a bitch

i have a netgear wgr614

its 802.11g but i dunno if the d-link will work with it...?

 

[posol]

netgear makes one too...

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WGXB102.php

 

[reckedracing]

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i'm not sure this will work for me, i'm trying to connect 2 diffrent buildings, with seperate meters...

 

[endlesszeal]

you can buy bigger antennas or make custom ones. placing it away from wireless phones and higher places usually help. ive seen people place like alum. foil and crazy home made shit that works, but i think it violates FCC regulations?

or you can junk and go mimo or pre-n. way faster than g and longer range.

 

[erikespo]

The electric outlet won't work between buidlings.. I dont' think.. you best bet is some kind of wireless unidirectional antenna

If you have a linksys wrtg you can pul hacked firmware on it and bump up your power.. but.. it spreads into other channels making it a violation

 

[Battle Pope]

yeah, the cantenna works.

 

[endlesszeal]

what do you spreads? i have that router and ive seen a lot of 3rd party firmware, but don't know what they do.

 

[posol]

what you really want is a point to point, or access point..... not a router...

 

[reckedracing]

well, we have the router for the office, for the network and diffrent work stations, the wireless is just an additional bonus that we just started using

my boss got a laptop from dell that came with a wireless card so i just hooked it up and got it working but now we're trying to get it to work in his house...

i dunno...

i'll have to do some more research i guess

so B, whats a point to point? or access point?

 

[posol]

basically, its a BEAM of signal, instead of a circle.

you hook up 2 units to aim at each other and it passes the signal from A to B, but there is no reception in the dead zone