[X4U] Help with Wireless, Airport, Repeater

[B Gardner]

Base station is located in the basement about midway from either end of 
the house. It is on top of a file cabinet and the external antenna is 
higher and nearer the ceiling or floor as it where.
Byron
On Jul 2, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Jens Selvig wrote:

> Where do you have the Airport Base station located? Do  you have it 
> near any obstacles like furnaces?
>
> You could move the Airport Base station closer to where you use the 
> laptop. Even upstairs?
>
> Jens
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2004, at 6:12 PM, B Gardner wrote:
>
>> Here is my setup:
>>
>> Basement office in a single story ranch type home.
>> Airport Extreme Base Station is located in basement. Connected to the 
>> LAN port of the Airport is a NetGear 8 port router.
>> A DSL modem is connected to the WAN port on the AP base station. 
>> Other computers downstairs connected to 8 port router.
>> AL PowerBook has AP Extreme. When working on PB in basement office, I 
>> connect it to the ethernet cable, which is connected to the 8 port 
>> router mentioned above.
>>
>> Problem:
>> At times, I need to use the PowerBook upstairs on wireless through 
>> the AP base station but when I do, the signal is weak and unusable.
>>
>> To help, I connected a 6dbi omnidirectional external antenna to the 
>> Base Station. Helpful but still weak and at times drops signal.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> Is there a way to set up a "repeater" (or would it be a "bridge") 
>> upstairs to extend a signal from the airport and make the reception 
>> better upstairs?
>> What third party wireless equipment could be used in this instance?
>> I know the Airport Express will be useful in this case, but is there 
>> a suitable third party source that will work and is less than 120.00?
>> (For example, I have seen Belkin bridges as well as Buffalo makes a 
>> repeater. What works with a Mac and Airport?)
>>
>
> Jens Selvig
> ...lost in Montana...
>
>
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