Re: How to calculate increase of home wireless router range?

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:03:49 -0400, "Peter Pan"
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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:28:16 -0000, Dave Platt wrote:
Can you help me roughly CALCULATE how to increase the range of my
home Internet wireless WiFi setup to a shed 300 feet away from my
house?

You may want to consider doing it the way cheaper way (using any of the N
((actually pre-n cuz there are no N standards yet)) is IMO the hard and
expensive way)... I Had a linksys WRT54G in the house attached to my sat,
and used one of the 4 router outputs to daisy chain one to the wan input of
another WRT54G (same ssid) and a semi-directional antenna pointed towards
the garage about 500ft away, (and another to the guest house (about 800 FT
away) out back on my 5 acres).. The Linksys WRT54G (not the GS) are
available at wal-mart for under $50 each... Cat 5 cables a few bucks, and
the semi-directional antennas (not highly directional, just semi) where a
few bucks each for the 2nd and 3rd wap/routers.. Am even thinking about
adding a 4th wap/router so I can use my PDA (with wifi) out by the horse
corral.

Think increased range by using multiple wap/routers and multiple antennas,
rather than trying to get one that is more powerful and does it all..

Increase coverage by adding access points (network bridges), not
routers. You want only one router on the typical small network.
Otherwise you'll likely run into problems of multiple NAT and DHCP
conflict. You use additional routers to increase coverage if you
configure them as access points rather than routers, as described in the
How To wiki below. That means connecting LAN port on the router to LAN
(not WAN) port on additional routers configured as access ports.

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