I'd like to get an outdoor directional antenna facing my parents house(2 houses away), and rebroadcast their signal in my house. I’vebeen able to connect to their network with a directional antennaconnected to a network card and aiming it out a window but I want to beable to move around and after replacing my windows with Low-E my signalis gone. Do you know if repeaters collect signals through their antennaand repeat them through their base, or do they collect and repeat thesignal through their antenna only?I’d like to put an outdoor antenna dish to get my parents signal,carry it down to the base unit 2 floors below and rebroadcast it. Thebase unit needs to know what I do, get that signal and broadcast it tomy parents house. Do you know if repeaters both send/receive onlythrough their antenna or, do they receive/send through both theirantenna and base? Hope I explained that well. Jennifer------------------------------------------------------------------------View this thread:

Hi. First of all, there is no sending or receiving at the base unlessit has no visible antenna. Standard repeaters are just one radio thatreceives, holds and then repeats. They do everything thru theirantenna.They are not usually recommended as there can be all kinds of problemswith them, especially if you want to do WPA security (which youshould, probably), but they are sold and some people report success.I'm setting up a true two-radio repeater right now, where one ispointed at the internet source or gateway and the other is pointed ata pair of houses that want wifi. The specialized radio antenna I haveis up in a tree with a better view and gets a much better signal thaninside the houses.It's more complicated with two units, but should work reliably when Iget it set up.Hope that helps you get a little orientation repeaters.Steve

Repeaters, send/receive through antenna only, or base unit to?

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John Navas 18 years ago

Glad to hear you were successful, and thanks for taking the time to say thanks -- all too many don't bother.

Recommend against using MAC filtering -- won't help security (really), and tends to cause grief. Likewise do turn off SSID broadcast.

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:56:15 -0800 (PST), snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :

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Peter Pan 18 years ago

never ever turn off ssid broadcast, does absolutely NOTHING for security and causes all sorts of problems for yourself...

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John Navas 18 years ago

Right -- typo on my part -- meant to write: Likewise do NOT turn off SSID broadcast. Thanks for catching that!

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