Dave Smith wrote:
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Has anyone else got a stock 802.11g router to reach that far (at 400'
they could connect a MacBook to it still)?
That's very impressive. I've seen even the venerable cat5e degrade to an
unusable point at that distance. Is your parents' AP outdoors or near a
window? How high off the ground is it?
It's right near the window, about six feet off the ground. So there's
virtually no house to stop the signal before it goes out side. Then
there are 2 rows of trees (not too dense) over the 400 feet. All I can
think of is that the noise is so low that even lower signal gets through
and doesn't degrade. At that 400' (without WDS), they were getting 2
bars of signal on the OS X signal strength indicator, although I doubt
the speed was more than 2 Mb/s. In my experience, a Dell with built-in
wireless likely wouldn't be able to grab the signal, nor would my
aluminum PowerBook. The antenna in the white plastic case on the new
MacBooks seems a lot better than many other forms of built-in wireless.
Off topic, but my longest Cat-6 runs (linked at 100 Mb/s) at work are
about 550 feet. The data transfer rate was about 7 MB/s over ssh, with
not very many error frames. Of course at that distance if you added a
hub, everything would come to a screeching halt. A switch would be
okay, though.
--Dave
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