capt.bill11 wrote:
Larry Wrote:
capt.bill11 wrote in
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So what goes between the antenna and the Linksys box?
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Use LMR-400 cable. Get Radiolabs to make you a custom cable up to 40'
long.
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/cables/cable.php
The connectors for the various Linksys products are shown on their
webpages. Make sure you leave an extra foot on both ends so you're not
sorry!
No, RG-58 left over from your VHF radio pullout won't work on 2400 Mhz.
Put that out of your mind....
Larry
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Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.
Thanks Larry.
But the antenna came with the correct end fitting to hook to the
Linksys box. But what I'm not sure about is whether by just hooking
the WiFi antenna to one of the two antenna posts on the Linksys box I
should then start picking up local WiFi sites?
Is there a piece of cable in between the connectors?
Do you have coax needed for the run or are you just trying to test it?
At any rate, you need to configure the Linksys box a little. Use a
network cable and connect you PC's network connector to one of the
network ports (not the WLAN or Wideband connector) on the Linksys
whatever it is.
Start a browser and enter address
http://192.168.1.1/ (or maybe
http://192.168.100.1/, it should be in your manual).
Then leave the user name blank and enter the password "admin" (lower
case, leave the quote marks off).
That should take you to Setup on the Linksys. Somewhere in there will
be an option to use either one or both of the antennas. It may be under
Advanced Wireless Antenna Selection. You need to tell it which
antenna (right or left) you want to use and save that setting.
I recommend you leave the the standard "rubber ducky" antenna on the
connector you do not turn on. That will keep that side from "running
open" if the whatever it is resets itself to defaults.
If the new antenna is far enough away from the rubber ducky you may
later even find having both antennas on useful. It might be that it
will work better inside the boat or in one area of the boat or another.
On the other hand, it may do some strange things at the antenna.
Jack
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