I need to boost my wireless signal from my router. My shop is about 50 ft from my home . If I leave the walkin door open to the shop I can receive wireless but when I close the doors . Which it is winter here in Iowa so I have to keep the door closed :-) The signal disappeers to the extent it will not work. Is there any type of booster/repeater I could use ? Thanks, Raz
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:39:20 -0600, "The Webbers Hilltop Cycle ATV" wrote in :
Assuming the door is just wood (not steel) and not too thick, a high-gain antenna or reflector might help. See wikis below.
If you have some signal, a simple reflector on the router might make things very good. You could also use a USB client adapter in the shop that has a directional antenna included, or has an antenna where you could put another reflector.
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Had that problem with my shop in northern idaho (north of rathdrum, very rural area, no cable or dsl, 90 miles south of the canadian border)... was a steel door, turned out the walls were not corrugated fiberglass like I thought, but actually anodized/colored/corrugated steel and blocked the wireless signal, in addition, had a metal snow roof on the building so it was blocked from up top too. When I ran more power to the shop (100 amp - for my arc welder compressor etc) from the meter at the house, I was able to use powerline networking, and just had a wap/router on it so I had wired/wireless in the shop, same as in the house.. Bout $140 for the powerline networking stuff
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