Re: Repeaters, send/receive through antenna only, or base unit to?
- From: DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 06 Jan 2008 16:15:10 GMT
Venus <Venus.32orq3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:Venus.32orq3
@no-mx.wirelessforums.org:
I'd like to get an outdoor directional antenna facing my parents house
(2 houses away), and rebroadcast their signal in my house. I’ve
been able to connect to their network with a directional antenna
connected to a network card and aiming it out a window but I want to be
able to move around and after replacing my windows with Low-E my signal
is gone. Do you know if repeaters collect signals through their antenna
and repeat them through their base, or do they collect and repeat the
signal 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. The
base unit needs to know what I do, get that signal and broadcast it to
my parents house. Do you know if repeaters both send/receive only
through their antenna or, do they receive/send through both their
antenna and base?
Hope I explained that well. Jennifer
Not really.
Anyway, what I'm assuming here is 1) that your parents have a wireless
router. And 2) you want to use their internet thru their wireless router
from your house.
Additionally, not only above, but 3) you want to have wireless access
within your house as well.
How much do you want to spend ? If you have none of the equipment, what you
would like to do would cost in the vicinity of $200 USD to accomplish.
For $150 from TigerDirect, you can buy an Engenious outdoor all-in-one b/g
bridge. All in one means the unit has an integrated antenna and utilizes
POE (power over ethernet) so from wherever the unit is installed outside,
the only wire run is a CAT5 eth cable and not messing with coax and rf
connectors and such. This particular product has a 'Client Bridge' mode.
This means that it would act as a client to connect to an AP, just as any
laptop or desktop 802.x adapter would. You could use this mode to connect
to your parents AP.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=
2787262&CatId=372
This would be mounted outside of your house facing your parents house. The
CAT5 cable from the radio would come down to the building entry point.
There is an inline power injector for the POE that runs from a DC adapter,
a small little plastic box with 2 network jscks and a power jack.
After the CAT5 enters the building, somewher in line you would insert the
POE injector. (Somewhere meaning wherever an AC plug is handy to plug in
the DC adapter.) The CAT5 from the radio into 1 end, the CAT5 going to it's
final destination on the other, and the DC power plug on the side (I think
the side).
That takes care of getting the wireless connection into your house, and
what you have inside is a CAT5 cable.
This cable can then be connected dirctly into your PC, or can be plugged
into another wireless AP to provide wireless at your location. That is
where the additional $50 comes from, the extra AP at your house.
Done.
As for configuration, as stated, the Engenius as a 'Client Bridge', no DHCP
on that if DHCP is enabled at your parents rtr. And the CAT5 connection
from the outdoor bridge to the wireless AP/rtr INSIDE your house would plug
into one of the INSIDE AP's regular ETH jacks, NOT the WAN jack.
.
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