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WiFi Access
Glen, Larry and Bill,
Thanks for all the good info. I should be able to figure this out now. My cable company ended their broadband line just after my house. I'm also sharing my access with a neighbor about a half-mile away. I reprogrammed a spare WRT54G and added a beam antenna. He has a Linksys 'B' bridge at his end. Works great. By the way, the Shuttle computer does not have any PCI slots so wireless PCI adapters won't help. It only has two PCI Express slots, 1X and 16X. These are completely different from standard PCI. The 16X slot has an ATI graphics and video capture card. The mother board has all the rest of the needed features on it. Thanks again, Rusty "Larry" wrote in message ... "Rusty" wrote in : I have a non-laptop Shuttle computer on my sailboat. Just stop buy any computer shop and get a Wireless PCI Adapter. It does the same thing for the desktop that the PCMCIA wifi card does for the laptop. Of course, the best ones say NETGEAR on them....(c; http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WPN311.php Get the MIMO RangeMax with the bigger transmitter and wider coverage than 802.11G. You can even outboard the antenna with a Wifi antenna like the homebrew Pringle's can antenna: http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://www.binarywolf.com/249/ or put up a microwave reflector like: http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/ http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000870032574/ One nice-looking antenna comes from the satellite TV business. It combines the Pringle's can antenna as a feedhorn for a small satellite dish as the reflector. I'm currently using a Dish Network larger reflector and homebrew Pringles feedhorn to shoot wifi to a friend's house over 2 miles from here with great success. Fooling with 2.4Ghz homebrew antennas is nearly more fun than playing with the internet.....(c; Here's a good pointer site for lots of different wifi antenna projects anyone can build. http://www.wardrive.net/general/antenna To find all the open networks anyone can connect to, get Network Stumbler for free from http://www.stumbler.net/ Just install it. There's instructions for it on the website. If you plug any handheld GPS into the computer, too, Net Stumbler will not only log the information from all the systems it scans, but will save the GPS position of all of them....then, couple that with Google Maps and Google Earth to create a wifi map of any place on the planet....great fun and of use when away from home...(c; Get the computer a Skype phone for the internet so you can make free calls until 2007 to any phone in the USA or Canada...FROM ANY INTERNET POINT ON THE PLANET! http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keat...0-skype-phone- review.asp Talk as long as you like. Rates to most civilized countries in Europe, again from any place on the planet you can get wifi service, is EU0.017/min from your precharged Skype account. Skype-to-Skype internet calls from any place to any place, with full motion color video from your webcam if you like, is always free. I just got off Skype to a friend in Japan a while ago. Anyone with Wifi should have Skype. The phone is about 80-90 US Dollars on the net, now. My review of Skype Phone is on: http://www.epinions.com/content_238700433028 |
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