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But all these settings are on the LAN/Wireless side of the Router,
NOT the WAN side of the Router which is the side that needs to
communicate with the WiFi Access Point out in the WOLRD.......
When using this router as a BRIDGE, to bring WiFi onboard......


Skip's situation must have been in my head at Best Buy tonight. I was
looking through the 802.11N new toys and there sat one of those Linksys
WRE54G ver 3-US "Range Expanders" I found interesting. If I'm
disappointed, I can take it back within 30 days, so no loss.

My interest is to extend the range of my Netgear SPH101 Skype wifi phone
when signals are marginal because the little phone has an internal
antenna.

I shut down my access-point-in-a-plastic-bucket 50' up the tree in my
yard so only the Netgear router in the house will be online. I plugged
the little Range Extender into a drop cord I leave in my yard and sat it
atop my car with its little plastic antenna sticking up.

The quick instructions tell you to press the Auto-Configure button on the
side for 5 seconds which sets it to looking for an unsecured AP to
connect to. The power light blinks red/blue until it find one, and turns
blue when it connects itself and has a live link. Another blue light,
Activity, is solid on until data flows through the box, then it winks off
for packets so you can tell data's going through the repeater.

It took about 5 seconds to logon to my unprotected W4CSC main router, a
Netgear MIMO G box. The two lights were blue. Before I turned it on, I
noted on my little Netgear wifi Skype phone I had 32% (2 bars) of signal
out by the car. After it logged on, without reconnecting to anything, I
had full scale by the car! I called Skype Call Test's number and walked
up the street testing the connection and range. Without the tree router
outside, the range from the main router is about 50 ft outside the house.
With the 50' router and this little Range Extender on top of the car, I
walked up the street 8 houses to the top of the hill and Skype didn't
drop until I couldn't see the car any more...line of sight, of course.

The thing works! Oddly, it seems to assume the identity of the router
it's repeating and the Skype phone, at least, seems to not notice when
its signal has been hijacked by it.

My plan is to run it on the car, tomorrow, at some marginal open hotspots
to see how much better my Skype Phone will work in the marginal
restaurants, a good test of its capability. The only thing I'll have to
do, manually, is to plug its AC cord into the little 100W inverter in the
car and manually do an Auto Configure before I leave the car for it to
find new open friends to connect to in the new location. That seemed to
work fine on the way home and, quite hilariously, I noted before I forced
it to look again to find my home router, Tmobile SSID was on the air from
it, left over from the restaurant I was fooling with it on the way home.

Might be a solution for some.....but it's only +15dbm output. I don't
know how you're going to Auto Configure from the bottom of a mast on a
yacht. Maybe cycling its AC power off then on will make it hunt again.
I'll check that, but I don't think that will work from the T-mobile it
remembered on the way home....



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