On 3/5/10 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
So, here's the deal.. I'd like very much to "extend" my network. Is there a way to do this? I use a current Airport Extreme Base Station mounted high on my wall inside my 14x55 mobile home and I'd like to share my internet with my niece who lives in another mobile home 75 yards give or take away... currently she gets about 2 bars on her macbook. Is there a way of getting her 4 bars? by mounting some kind of antenna on the outside of the house? if so, where would I plug it into? I need my wifi to be completely independent of my home computers (G5 & G4 mdd). TIA Jeff
Can you mount the base station so it has a view out a window to the other mobile home. Eliminating one metal wall would certainly help. Frankly she is getting a pretty strong signal right now considering how far away she is. You might look into setting up an Airport Express as a WDS relay at her end. With your Extreme and her Express both mounted near windows so they have a good line of sight connection it ought to work pretty well.
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