or you could stick a few pringles cans on his roof to act as passive 
repeaters...
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On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 06:37  AM, w v.d.Bosch wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to the wi-fi scene, so if my question sounds stupid, 
> I apoligise....
>
> I have a cable-modem at home, but a friend of mine who lives just a 
> couple of houses away, can't get it due to bad-cabling and stuff... So 
> we set out to establish a wireless link between his and my house but 
> there are some obstructions in the way;
>
> a brick house....
>
> The signal is sometimes able to penetrate this building but the 
> link-quality is always 0. Do you guys think if I use a Yagi antenna on 
> both ends I will be able to get a stable link?? How many wavelengths 
> should this yagi be? Or is it just impossible to penetrate a brick 
> house with 802.11b ??
>
> Both the AP and client-card are transmitting at 100mw (used to be 30, 
> but that increase in power didn't seem to improve the signal)
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Grtzz from Wilbert
> (the Netherlands)
>
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