WiFi Range Problems?? SOLUTION!
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WiFi Range Problems?? SOLUTION!
Heres a nifty solution from my favorite people:
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-mak...extender-10200
Patrick Norton claims it almost doubled his signal.
Heres the link for the pattern:
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects...te2/index.html
10-12db of boost (hmmm boost...fitting?) for about .25 cents. Compared to $40 for a 7db omni antenna. I'LL TAKE IT!!
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-mak...extender-10200
Patrick Norton claims it almost doubled his signal.
Heres the link for the pattern:
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects...te2/index.html
10-12db of boost (hmmm boost...fitting?) for about .25 cents. Compared to $40 for a 7db omni antenna. I'LL TAKE IT!!
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Originally Posted by willwren
Not necessarily a range booster (that reflector can have no gain) or a booster, but more a 're-director'. You'll have almost no signal to the opposite side.
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Originally Posted by willwren
Not necessarily a range booster (that reflector can have no gain) or a booster, but more a 're-director'. You'll have almost no signal to the opposite side.
actually that would be everywhere since my router is in my front room
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Hmm... I used to be a big fan of wok-fi (A wok lid with a usb reciever taped to the middle of it on a camera tripod), but this looks a lot lighter lol. Perhaps I'll give it a whirl next time I need to extend a signal a few feet...
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Originally Posted by Bonnevillan
noob stuff!
get a WRT-54G and hack it, put some linux firmware on there and you can actually boost the signal (dBm) by 2x or way more
get a WRT-54G and hack it, put some linux firmware on there and you can actually boost the signal (dBm) by 2x or way more
But yea, for anyone who REALLY wants to turn up the juice, do something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, etc.