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[Craig Duncan <craigduncan AT entuend.com>]

Until this evening, I had a similar problem - wireless router on one side of 
the house, TV room diagonally opposite on a different floor. Following the 
advice from the list and quick search on the Linksys web site, I stopped by 
Best Buy on the way home and picked up a set of more powerful antenna. In 
addition, I purchased the remote stand so that I could mount them on the wall 
away from furniture and other obstacles.

The net result of the antenna alone was that I could move anywhere in the 
house and get a connection, but the signal strength was poor. So I changed 
the channel on the router from 6 to 9 and voila, 54Mb/s at the farthest point 
in the house from the access point. You may also wish to experiment with the 
position of the antenna.

 iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"entuend"  Nickname:"entuend"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: 0F:0F:96:99:14:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:13 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-77 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:126  Invalid misc:20853   Missed beacon:0


Hope this helps, ymmv,
Craig

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 03:38 pm, Paul Jones wrote:
> the case: a working wireless network using a single linksys wireless
> router, but part of the house that beyond the fireplace and chimney is in
> a dead zone. machines involved are all powerbooks with airport (not
> airport extreme) cards.
>
> goal: to get beyond the bricks.
>
> solutions?
> second wireless router? probable double nat difficulties
> add antenna to linksys? suggestions on how?
> move linksys? maybe but not easily
> go with 802.11g transmitter? even tho the laptops have only 802.11b will
> it work?
>
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Craig