Hi Jamie, I agree that using a bridge as a client to your main AP would probably be the best solution. If you have an old PC laying around, you could create a bridge using that and just purchase the wireless cards for it if needed. That should resolve any vendor compatibility issues, might be a solution you hadn't thought of. Just my .02
HTH, Fred -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Alessio Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Best Way to Repeat Signal? I'm attempting to get a wireless link from a house to a cottage residence in the back of house. Inside the main house is a Netgear MR814. I get a signal from the MR814 in the cottage using a Linksys WPC54G and am able to connect, but the coverage is *extremely* spotty since it travels through several plaster walls, a brick wall and some trees (moving my laptop less than an inch changes a <10ms ping response to no response at all!). Making changes to the wireless setup in the main house to increase the range is not an option (no adding of antennas, etc) so I'm looking for a solution to repeat the wireless signal in the cottage. If I mount a stationary unit at the far end of the cottage which is closest to the main house I'll have a reliable signal which I should be able to repeat for use within the cottage. At the moment though, I'm confused on the best way to achieve this and would love some input to clear up my confusion. After reading through the BAWUG archives and doing some research I've come up with a few options that I think would work: Current setup and available gear: Netgear MR814 - used in main house as dsl gateway and wireless AP with WEP enabled. Linksys WPC54G - PCMCIA card in my IBM Thinkpad running Win2k. Works great with MR814 when I'm in range (or find 1 inch wide voodoo spots in cottage where I get a signal). Linksys WRT54G - router / access point that is currently unused Option 1: Purchase a D-Link DWL-810, mount it at the far end of the cottage and use it as a repeater. DWL-810 connects to MR814 and laptop with WPC54G connected to DWL-810. This seems like a simple solution but I haven't found any information on whether the DWL-810 can repeat for the MR814. I was initially looking at the Linksys WAP11 for this purpose but discovered that it can only bridge for another WAP11. Anyone know if this is the case for the DWL-810? So the setup would be: Internet <=> MR814 <=> DWL-810 <=> WPC54G While this seems like the simplest setup, my concern with this setup is being able to get hardware from three different vendors to work together nicely. Option 2: Purchase something link a Linksys WET11 or Netgear ME101 (which are both wireless ethernet bridges), mount it at the far end of the cottage and connect it via an ethernet cable to my Linksys WRT54G. The WET11 or ME101 would talk to the MR814 and my laptop would talk with the WRT54G. So the setup would be: Internet <=> MR814 <=> WET11 / ME101 <=ethernet cable=> WRT54G <=> WPC54G This also seems like it would work with the disadvantage of using one extra piece of hardware (the WPC54G) that I could install elsewhere. My main concerns are purchasing a piece of hardware that will work with Netgear MR814 with WEP enabled and also my Linksys WPC54G card. Any ideas on which of those two options would work best? Or perhaps another option all-together? Thanks in advance for your comments. - Jamie -- 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
