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Telephone, too (was) WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
"Skip Gundlach" wrote in
ups.com: So, I'm on the hunt for a plug-and-play, moderately amplified (don't want to be a bigmouth nuisance), point-and-click-to-associate (required, not go to strongest signal, also a benefit in the cases where there may be multiple iterations of the same SSID with different MAC addresses), bridge (12V, as I've already spent the bux to have the POE). I've taken AIW out of the group list for this message......(c; Tried to call you, today, through the Linksys Mobile Repeater in my car from Denny's, but Skype said you were unavailable.... Because you got my interest up with your bridge and its problems, I read all about Linksys' little $99 WRE54G "Range Extender" completely wireless repeater. There it sat on the shelf so I bought it at Best Buy so I can take it back, easily, if it didn't "do". Denny's has a marginal open wifi signal from "default" (a Netgear? router somewhere), which I thought was coming from Denny's office, but evidently not. Signals are 10% on the Skype phone or laptop inside the metal restaurant through the windows, I suppose, now. In the parking lot, I plugged the 110VAC Linkie into a little inverter and pressed the Auto Configure button. It blinked a couple of times and went solid blue. I looked at my Skype Phone and was connected to the illusive "default" at FULL SCALE. Inside the restaurant about 200' away, it was only half scale and fully functional! You just press the button... It comes with control software so you can force it to connect to what you want and you can set that up with Ethernet direct or over the air. The software hunts it down on wireless.... Later, at the Dell kiosk inside Northwoods Mall where only one nearby hotspot is open and all others WEP protected, we plugged it in and Auto Configured and it hooked right up to the open system. All the laptops connected through it, simultaneously to "linksys", the open system, with big signals from close to them. They're gonna get one...(c; If the Vonage box will use the AP box as a WAN input through this box, might be interesting to try. You can always take it back within 30 days for refund. It's only 20mw, though and I don't see how you'd reset it at masthead. Put it in a plastic bag trailing a 115VAC dropcord and haul it up on a lanyard?? Man it sure makes the Skype phone LONG RANGE! Now, I'm forced to keep it! -- http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/verichip.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriChip http://www.verichipcorp.com/ Tracked like a dog, every license/product/tax. Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name... |
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