We live in an RV, we have 3 computers, all laptops without an external antenna connector.
We travel, and constantly find RV parks where the signal is week and fluxuating all the time. Sometimes to the point of no signal, it makes working the internet very difficult.
My question, and what I'm thinking. To accomodate multpile laptops, get a high gain directional exterior antenna, mount it to the RV. Run a cable from there to a central interior location, then attach a short basic Wifi antenna like you might find on a wireless router or PCLAN card to the cable and mount it inside. I'm wondering if this would work to make our RV more of a "Hot spot" for our laptops.
Yesterday I got fed up with getting cut off every 30 seconds, so I took a Linksys router antenna and a piece of my wife's jewelry wire to connect it to the bedroom TV coax cable. I know it is a complete wavelength mismatch and the impedence is probably wrong, but it seems to have improved my connection to the point of almost tolerable.
I'm thinking if I can amplify the signal with a high gain antenna, and wire that signal into the RV and focus that through a typical Wifi antenna, we should get a stronger and cleaner signal that our built in laptop antenna's can get happy with. I need to know if this will work before spending the money on parts.
Am I wrong here, or will this work for our needs?
Thank You for any input, Dan
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