To increase your wifi range by quite a bit, I'd suggest using an ALFA usb wifi device. I've had very good luck with them on GNU/Linux distros & they will accept an external antenna.
Cheers, Elcaset On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/05/14 07:33, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Thanks for showing me many options. With a modicum of skill (and > luck) > > I'll be doing a lot more business travel in the coming months where this > > capability will come in quite handy. Of course, there are vast swatches > of > > Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho that are official Radio Free Zones. No > > cellular coverage at all. Along I-80 cellular coverage is only 4 miles > > either side; beyond that it's sat phone territory (which is why I carry > the > > latter with me on trips when I'm driving in those areas). > > As others have mentioned, tethering might be an option. My experience > tethering with Ubuntu and ATT was relatively painless. This was using > Network Manager. I seem to recall you are using something else to > manage your network connection. Nonetheless, you might want to > experiment with tethering before you go buy something. You might be > pleasantly surprised. > > galen > -- > Galen Seitz > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
