a passive repeater at wifi freqs wont work. It just dont have enough gusto to make such an idea work. However, I have a similar problem here, and have resolved this with a 8 inch parabola stolen from the clip light, a baby bottle with disposable insert and a couple zip-ties. while it isnt the prettiest, I can grab a signal from nearly 1/4mile away with ground clutter.
I wish I had a pic to show you, but you may find similar designs if you do a google search for wifi dish. essentialy I stuck a linksys USB dongle into the bottle insert placed in bottle and attached to the center of parabola and held in place with zip-ties. I have a couple USB cables totng 20feet run out the window and allows the dish to be clipped to the eve of roof.(under so that no water or snow get in). I have been using this now constantly for the last year with no real problems. occasionally I will get someone who actually manages to park an auto in my path, but this only causes signal to drop to about 5.5MBS otherwise I am connected at 18-36 constanly. I used Netstumbler as my software for pointing and signal quality check. I hope you find what you are looking for. Chris KF6NFW On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:07 PM, numberone5call <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Curious; > Has anyone tried a passive repeater to extend the distance of internet > service. I have a daughter living in a house about 150 yards away. She has > little to no service from my n-router. There is nothing to block the signal > between us. What about connecting two yagis back to back and putting them on > a pole halfway between us. Never tried it on vhf or uhf. Just wondering if > anyone has tried it fer a wifi extension. > > Dennis no5c > > >
