Re: rigging house so all rooms have wireless

[Lan Barnes]

On Sat, February 21, 2009 6:33 pm, Robert Watkins-Bush wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 1/22/09, rern...@san.rr.com <rern...@san.rr.com> wrote:
> From: rern...@san.rr.com <rern...@san.rr.com>
> Subject: rigging house so all rooms have wireless
> To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux"
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> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 8:36 AM
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> Any suggestions for quality home house wireless where the wireless doesn't
> work through most walls well?  Currently netgear through the wiring setup,
> works, just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for bettering it?
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> Thanks,
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> Rich
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> Just read this. Might it work in your case?
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> Bob
> Longer Wi-Fi ReachIf your home
> Wi-Fi router doesn’t reach the other end of the house, don’t rush out
> to buy more wireless gear to stretch your network. Instead, build a
> six-inch-high passive radio wave reflector from kitchen items, like an
> aluminum cookie sheet. Follow the instructions at
> freeantennas.com/projects/template.
> Place the completed reflector — a small, curved piece of metal that
> reflects radio waves just like a satellite TV dish — behind your Wi-Fi
> router. It focuses the router’s energy in one direction — toward the
> other end of the house — rather than letting it dissipate its strength
> in a full circle. No cables, no batteries, no technical knowledge
> required. Yet it can easily double the range of your network.
>

I suspect the reflector from a large flashlight would do the job as well.

-- 
Lan Barnes

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