On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wooden walls would not block radio waves a whole lot. My house is all concrete block, and my Airport Base Station is reachable from everywhere in it.
In it yes, but I have a Swedish wooden house built in 1910 which has been covered with bricks, but no metal structures.
I want to use my PowerBook outside in the garden which is about 16,500 square feet (1502 m^2) with several seating places.
That works out to a square 128' on a side. Close to the house you should be able to work; it depends on where the base station is in the house.
The linear distance from receiver to receiver is the key. 802.11b will reach to about 150' (~46M). Apple says 802.11g reaches about 50' (~15M) on their hardware page about the ABS Extreme.
Pretty basic stuff really, but I was merely thinking of a larger uni- directional antenna.
Dr. Bott sells those for $99US <http://tinyurl.com/6rqn7>
Don't know how well they work; but likely this will do what you want.
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