On 4/8/10 12:50 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:10:31 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:25:12 -0400, John
wrote:

John, I have tried a lot of different long range WiFi solutions over
the last 5 years but the very best is the one I have now from these
guys:

http://islandtimepc.com/marine_wifi.html

It is truly outstanding and it doesn't cost all that much compared to
some of the other systems that are out there. They are also very good
at providing support via EMAIL or telephone.

Wow. I can see where you would need that, but that may be overkill for my use.
Thanks for the info though.

Trust me on this, if you'e serious about WiFi at a distance, that is
the one you want. I'm connected to an access point two miles away
across the water as we speak, and have very good signal strength.
There are other advantages in addition to long range. The interface
to your computer is an ethernet cable for example, so no special
software driver installation is required. A lot of WiFi drivers are
buggy in my experience. You can also connect the ethernet interface
to your own router allowing you to share the connection locally if you
choose, just like a home WiFi installation.

I like wire but when my son in law was over here he had his laptop
near the front window and saw 3 networks with the built in antenna.
One was unsecured.
It looks like wireless is good for at least 100 yards without even
trying. (just guessing about who was a network near me)



When you say networks, are you referring to the individual networks
folks set up in their homes with routers?

If so, I think you are right on the money, maybe conservative. I helped
a near-neighbor set up his windows home server on his computer and
router, and I brought my apple laptop with me because I have a lot of
*.PDFs stored on it with network documentation. While we were messing
about setting up his new hardware, I checked whether I could get a
signal from my cisco wireless-n router. I could. His house is more than
100 yards from ours.

I have no trouble finding the wireless networks of closer neighbors, but
their wireless networks, like mine, require a bit more than "discovery"
to gain entre.

In the house, we have hardwired access in five different rooms,
but once in a while either my wife or I or a guest are in a room where
the choice is wireless or nothing. Speed from the net is about the same
through the router, wired or wireless but file transfers and backups to
our server via the wired network are much faster.

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