External Antenna to “park” wifi -> Netgear WGE111 game adapter -> Airport Express or small travel router -> laptops.
That will allow you put an appropriate antenna setup on your vehicle for the external connection (I might try using a yagi – either bare or in a plastic housing – connected to some type of antenna rotator so that you can aim it from inside). You can use a laptop to change to SSID on the game adapter whenever you hit a new site, and then the travel router will handle distribution internally, including maintaining your session state with the “park” wifi gateway.
And before everyone starts, you could setup something like this with a soekris board, or a small pc/linux system, or something else hacked together, but that setup (minus the antenna mounting) is something that you could put together in less than a day with parts from almost any computer store and be off and running. It’s not the most elegant solution, but it would work, be fairly easy to use, etc.
Good luck.
Andras
On 6/18/06 10:32 AM, "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a motorhome, and often camp (well, park...) in campgrounds (ahem, parking lots...) that have WiFi. They have offered WiFi Internet access to a computer for a fee - what I would like to do is have a main antenna/access point aboard the camper and then re-distribute the signal to three laptops connected to grand children.
My first thought was a central computer that would be the "ships computer" and work from there, but is that even needed? Everyone with laptops would provide more flexability and distributed points of failure...
Thoughts?
N6GPP
Richard
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