Can I use an AP as a better client/receiver for my PC?
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Posted by on March 12, 2008, 9:59 am
Please log in for more thread options Home Hub (DSL modem/firewall/wireless router). The wireless coverage is not good, especially to an office where my wife's PC is located. Moving the router is not an option. But... My wife's PC has a little USB dongle as a WiFi client. I also have a spare NetGear wireless access point. Would it be a good idea to replace my wife's PC's dongle with the NetGear AP? Is it possible to configure an AP to act as a client? How? Thanks Bob | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on March 12, 2008, 5:37 pm
Please log in for more thread options If you have some signal, a simple reflector on the router might make things very good. http://www.freeantennas.com EZ-12, printed on photo paper for thick stock, with aluminum foil glued to the sail, provides a substantial boost in signal. http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/EZ12-windsurfer.jpg Make the tabs longer than the template drawing, for easier assembly. > My wife's PC has a little USB dongle as a WiFi client. I also have a
> spare NetGear wireless access point. Would it be a good idea to > replace my wife's PC's dongle with the NetGear AP? Is it possible to > configure an AP to act as a client? How? Some, what model do you have? You can put the little dongle in a coffee can for improved performance Bob Alston's USB coffee can http://members.cox.net/tulsaalstons/Computer.htm "My Tin Cantenna" Clarence Dold's two coffee can USB picture http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/usb-can/im000742-800x600.jpg -- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5 | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on March 13, 2008, 2:54 pm
Please log in for more thread options dold@59.usenet.us.com wrote:
>Clarence Dold's two coffee can USB picture
>http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/usb-can/im000742-800x600.jpg Is this the better way to go above since the "radio" part is actually built into the antenna/can? | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Chris Davies on March 12, 2008, 8:22 pm
Please log in for more thread options bob.sather@gmail.com wrote:
> In my home I have ADSL broadband over the phone line, coming into a BT
> Home Hub (DSL modem/firewall/wireless router). The wireless coverage > is not good, especially to an office where my wife's PC is located. If I were setting things up at home again, I wouldn't have bothered with a WiFi reflector to our "downstairs" PC; I'd have gone for Homeplug. Chris | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by seaweedsteve on March 13, 2008, 12:47 pm
Please log in for more thread options > bob.sat...@gmail.com wrote:
> > In my home I have ADSL broadband over the phone line, coming into a BT
> > Home Hub (DSL modem/firewall/wireless router). The wireless coverage > > is not good, especially to an office where my wife's PC is located. >
> If I were setting things up at home again, I wouldn't have bothered with > a WiFi reflector to our "downstairs" PC; I'd have gone for Homeplug. > > Chris So you are saying that you had marginal reception and the reflector did not increase your reception? Did you aim it correctly? Or was it zero reception before and still not enough after. Or was it an interference problem? Home plug is often a great solution, but a reflector is about $100 cheaper and CAN make the difference in a marginal (not impossible) setting. | ||||||||||||||||
> Home Hub (DSL modem/firewall/wireless router). The wireless coverage
> is not good, especially to an office where my wife's PC is located.
> Moving the router is not an option. But...