Hi! Having read through numerous forums and web sites without finding anyone who seems to have the same problem as me, i am posting on your forum in the hope that someone can help me.
I live in a valley in sardinia which has recently provided internet coverage via wireless. The local reseller visited my land (which is just outside the town), checked line of site to the transmitter on the hill...OK, checked signal strength...OK, so i went ahead and signed up for the internet package. A week later a box arrived with a Osbridge 5Xli CPE - this has an ethernet cable and a POE adaptor. I plugged the cable into the network pci card in my main desktop pc (which happens to be fitted in my motorhome parked on the land!).... and there i was connected to the internet! So far so good. As the summer came it became too hot to work in the motorhome so i decided to try and create a wifi hotspot so i could work on my laptop in the shade. I contacted the reseller who sold me the internet package and he said that he could provide the necessary hardware for the job. A week later he arrived with what turned out to be a home made outdoor AP that did not work! Since then he has been 'unavailable' and i have had to look elsewhere. I then spent days scouring the interent for advice on the right product and ended up buying the following from a company called solwise.co.uk: AWOS-2400050 Outdoor Mesh AP WBIG-104GR Wireless Router This kit arrived and i plugged it all together...the the CPE into the WAN port on the router and the AP into the first LAN port on the router. I switched it on and ...it all seemed to work - i could connect to the internet on my laptop which was running XP and had an old dlink DWL-650 pcmcia card (11Mbs). The signal strength showed good to excellent (30metres line of sight to the outdoor antenna)... BUT... when i tried to use some of the high bandwidth sites (webcasting, you tube etc) i noticed a loss in speed and much buffering going on. I then looked at the literature that came with the products and saw that you can enter an ip address to configure them..... and that is where i am now! I dont feel technically competent to change any of the parameters and would be gratefull to anyone who could guide me. My main areas of concern are: Hardware - are the boxes i have bought providing the best solution? how do i configure them to ensure that i am using the full bandwidth available? Are there any bottle necks - do i need to upgrade my pcmcia card?
There are other questions but thats enough for now!
Thanks
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