You can buy "long range" antenna for the WRT54G. I've seen them at Frys
Electronics. They are about 3-4 times longer than the original ones.
Jack
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From: shop-talk-bounces+jibjib=att.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:shop-talk-bounces+jibjib=att.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Andy
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:41 AM
To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] OT: Wireless router (again)?
Howdy,
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Matt Wehland wrote:
>> I've got a wrt54g and the location its in doesn't cover the whole
>> house very well. I've heard about the different firmware's
>> available, but never heard that you could boost the signal with them...
>
> I'd try a good antennae first, that can make all the difference.
> Do you have a full G version with dual antennae's?
I've got the one with the dual antennas. I tried one of the "high gain"
antennas once and reception was a bit worse than the standard configuration.
Someone mentioned a repeater? Something that just needed some power and
could otherwise sit wherever would be nice. Its not like our house is very
big... 2300 ft^2, but its a sprawling ranch layout (great on the heating
bill... :-/) and the router is at one corner of the house.
Still, its probably only 50' or 75' or so through three walls from the
router to where I'd like better reception. Not sure why the signal strength
is so crappy there.
Perhaps I'll try a different channel, just in case there's some
interference. We do have a 2.4 Ghz and an older (900 MHz?
Something else) cordless phone...
Mark
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