Based on what I can see from the picture at http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=544&grid= ir is identical antenna as the WAP11 and WAP54G. For those models we buy pigtails (R-BNC to whatever you would like, but usually N). An cantenna will give you between 5 and 10 dB better S/N which sounds like what you need to go from sometime to permanent.
/Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: "KUROSAKA Teruhiko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: [BAWUG] External antenna for LinkSys BEFW11S4 > Hello, > I have a LinkSys 2.4 GHz wireless router, model BEFW11S4. > I have this in my living room and I was hoping I could use > my PC in my bedroom, which is about 15 m (50 ft) away but > there is a door and a wall between the two points. Unfortunately, > the connection turned out to be sporadic. Sometime I get connection > and sometime not. So I am trying to find a solution to > extend the signal reach a little bit. First thing I would > like to try before buying a $100 booster is to use an external > directional antenna with extension cable so that it can be > positioned in a better place. But I cannot find a place > to buy such thing. > > Googling on this subject yielded only Cantenna. It, however, > seems to be designed to be attached to the PC side, not the router. > They don't sell a cable for BEFW11S4. > > I went to a local Radio Shack also. They do sell cables with BNC > connector. But they don't sell external antennas. I was hoping > I could use the antenna that comes with the router because it is > detachable. But the antenna has a plastic sleeve around its male > connector and that prevents it from connecting to a regular female > BNC connector, which also has a metal screwing sleeve. > > So, anybody has any suggestion how to get around this situation? > -- > T. "Kuro" Kurosaka, San Francisco, California > > > . > > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
