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r00typooh
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Miami, FL
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 Posted: 02/25/05 - 00:17 Post subject: wireless network question
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for a home network, what can i do to extend a wireless network though a larger home without running cables?
is there a way i can just add access points throughout the home and have them interconnect with each other so that the network range is extended where i need it?
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Sovreign
Luke Warm
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 00:19 Post subject:
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There are range boosters, one moment, looking them up. What's the max distance you're looking for?
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r00typooh
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 00:21 Post subject:
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Adj Sq Footage: 4,436
i need wireless in the two extrems of a split level home with that squarefootage
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Sovreign
Luke Warm
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Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 00:27 Post subject:
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Getting close, try this.
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Sovreign
Luke Warm
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Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 00:51 Post subject:
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Not that I have a preference for this brand, but here.
Edit, product page for the above pdf.
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r00typooh
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Location: Miami, FL
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 12:19 Post subject:
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bump for more answers!
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Tura
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Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 12:27 Post subject:
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linksys sells nice antenna boosters. They still lag for me on FPS games though.
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Yellow Journalist
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Joined: 20 Oct 2002
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 12:44 Post subject:
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300ft is the range of most home ones... routers that is. I did so many installs working for comcast and my opinion of wireless networks = crap. Nothing is better then a hard line.
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Overon
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Location: PLANE OF PIXIES
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 13:04 Post subject:
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| Yellow Journalist wrote: | | 300ft is the range of most home ones... routers that is. I did so many installs working for comcast and my opinion of wireless networks = crap. Nothing is better then a hard line. |
id have to agree
id never use wireless for gaming, only surfing the net .. probably wouldnt even use it to download
something as little as someones damn wireless phone always f***s it up
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kemble
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Location: MI
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 13:17 Post subject:
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You can link access point to access point to provide continuous coverage.
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Nahualli
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 14:35 Post subject:
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I have 2 machines in my room and ironically the one closer to the wireless hub in the next room is the one that's always losing connection.. I will never understand wireless 
-Nah-
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Occulis
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Location: Moral Relativity Central
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 14:50 Post subject:
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yeah - like the other poster said, you can set a wap to be a simple bridge. ('repeater')
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r00typooh
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 15:21 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | yeah - like the other poster said, you can set a wap to be a simple bridge. ('repeater') |
that's what i wanted to do, i just wanted to make sure it could be done... is it just as simple as buying another WAP and telling it to act like a bridge? Then, a laptop could connect to the bridge-wap, which would in turn connect it to the Router/AP, which would in turn provide the user with net access?
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Occulis
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 15:26 Post subject:
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From what I remember in my LinkSys book, you can tell it to connect to a WAP and rather than get an IP, just act as a bridge.
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Frashii
Sir Postalot
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Anchorage, AK
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Posted: 02/25/05 - 16:48 Post subject:
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| Overon wrote: | | Yellow Journalist wrote: | | 300ft is the range of most home ones... routers that is. I did so many installs working for comcast and my opinion of wireless networks = crap. Nothing is better then a hard line. |
id have to agree
id never use wireless for gaming, only surfing the net .. probably wouldnt even use it to download
something as little as someones damn wireless phone always f***s it up |
Agreed. I f*****g hate wireless.
Its useful tfor my laptop in the kitchen to pull receipies, or pull up diagrams for the engine/car in garage.. other than that its UTP cat5E ftw
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