Long Range Wireless Help Needed

Chris F. · #8 12-09-2006, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by atillathetom

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=530

(that router is awesome) The signal will certainly reach that far. You could then use wireless cards in each PC in the main house. You may find that you need to use a repeater or extra antenna, which is no biggie. This solution does not allow you to use cabling...unless you got a wet.11 device for every computer you want to use the ethernet port on. Wet.11 are devices like this...

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=333

They are mainly used for single devices like XBox or similar. It would be the perfect solution to whole problem if you could plug it into a hub and get IPs for all attached devices, but it does not give out IP addresses, it is only capable of 1.

Excuse any typos...I think faster than i type.

Tom

Hey Tom,

Thanks for the info! Do you really think N will reach that far? 400 ft through trees? That is very cool if that is the case. Did the N protocol increase the transmit/receive power, or is it just because its higher up in the frequency chain?

I like your idea about using the gaming console adapter to convert to Ethernet. I have a thought...couldn't you use another router on the other end (that has DHCP server) and plug the gaming adapter into the "Internet" jack on the router and have the gaming adapter act like a cable modem or something? Hmmmm....the router would be looking for a DNS server and a gateway though....would it find it?

I like the idea a lot though. We were looking at 802.11b amplifiers that were like $250 a pop! This sounds much more economical.

Thanks for the help!

Chris