Re: Wireless from house to detached garage

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:54:09 -0800 (PST), myadmin1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
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On Jan 11, 10:39 pm, "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Just out of curiosity, what's your garage made from? I've run into a few
outbuildings with the corrugated metal sheets on the walls, or metal snow
roofs, that block wifi... Hope you don't run into that..... :)

Just regular ole 2 x 6 and siding, nothing metallic or fancy. I
talked to the Verizon folks yesterday and I think that I may just have
them (or my electrician) bury a conduit for the cable TV service and
when they do that I'll have them throw an ethernet cable in there as
well, that way the garage will actually be hardwired w/the internet.
Might just be easier that way.

You could also just use the TV coax. See coax networking in the Wiki
below.

this is where I get lost, if I hardwire the garage, how does a
wireless AP then broadcast my Verizon internet service? Do I just
plug it into the jack and set it up to broadcast?

The wired service in the garage is just hung off a router, access point,
hub, or switch just like your wired connections in the main house.
Nothing else changes.

OK, back to the main house, I'm still trying to decipher how I'm
supposed to connect if I am trying to boost the signal w/in the house
(not having any luck w/the parabolic reflector, I don't think my
skills were up to par when making it, I'm going to try it w/a manilla
envelope, I originally used the cardboard that makes up the external
portion of the packaging for a linksys router, it's not corrugated,
but maybe too thick to work?)

The reflector has to be metal. Otherwise get a high-gain antenna with
an appropriate pattern.

The equipment I have now includes the Verizon ActionTec router, a
Linksys Wireless Router as well as a Linksys Wireless Access Point. I
think the Linksys WAP will only play nice w/the linksys router and not
directly w/the Verizon ActionTec router.

Pretty much any wireless router can be used as a wireless access point
-- see How To in the Wiki below.

Any wireless access point should work on any Ethernet network.

If I hook up the linksys router to the verizon router I see two
wireless networks, then if I hook the WAP into the linksys router I
see three networks. This is where my ignorance of how this stuff
works shines. If I use the WAP to repeat the Verizon broadcast am I
then supposed to pick the linksys WAP from my available networks to
connect to instead of the Verizon router directly?

You don't want more than one router (and DHCP server)! Since you are
using a Verizon router, configure any wireless router as a wireless
access point.

--
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John Navas FAQ for Wi-Fi: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi>
Wi-Fi How To: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_HowTo>
Fixes to Wi-Fi Problems: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_Fixes>
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