Allen
Your point is well made. Individual results may vary. To further
complicate the matter (after talking to my house mate) it could be that
the wireless router is on the fritz. I'm will have to work with him,
before I shell out too much money.
Brian
Allen Brown wrote:
LinuxRocks! wrote:
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You could also get extension usb cables, and run your usb wifi
adapter outside, or to the garage, or wherever you get signnal. This
is the solution im using for local folks that cant get a decent
signal level inside thier rv. I got some 15' usb extension cables on
ebay, and 15' isnt too far for usb (I havet had to try using 2
extensions yet, but im leary that wont work...)
You will have to test this with the specific hardware and the specific
cable. There are wide variations in how well the various USB companies
have implemented their circuitry. There is a written spec which gives
reasonable margin, but that spec is often ignored if the product
happens to work on a 5 meter cable.
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Buying high gain antenna will make a big difference, its really
needed for the xmit antenna (many units have 2 antenna one rx the
other tx), its the tx antenna that will benefit the most, and putting
antenna on the access point will be more effective than on the adapter.
Jamie
Not sure what you mean by that statement. In terms of improving
the connection between two systems improving the receiver is
equivalent to improving the transmitter. Same for the antennas.
I can see two places where this would not be true. If you have
more receivers than transmitters then upgrading the transmitters
is more cost effective. And if you have significant background
noise then boosting the received signal will also boost the noise.
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