[CUBE] Airport to airport?

[Ann Billups]

I found using my Cube for a basestation was unsatisfactory. Its range 
was only about 30 feet and had no strength of signal unless I was right 
next to it. I looked into antennas to strengthen the signal and found 
they were as expensive as the Airport BaseStation. My house is long and 
narrow, 30ft by 70ft, and the Cube is in the far east bedroom and the 
family room is on the far west end of the house. So I got a BaseStation 
and it worked reasonably well for about two years and then died. I 
upgraded to an Airport extreme BaseStation just after I had gotten a 
new 12" PowerBook and my reception really got awful. The 12" PB is 
really bad, much worse that my 14" iBook was. I again looked into 
antennas again and it was as expensive to buy an antenna as a 
refirbished Extreme BaseStation from the Apple Web Store.

So I now have a basestation at each end of my house and use the one in 
the familyroom to relay to the other one for internet access and the 
setup works just fine. I just hope the Extreme Base Station lasts 
longer than the first one did. I understand that the old ones can be 
fixed, but it wouldn't have helped because you need an Extreme to do 
relay.

On Jan 19, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Christopher Hack wrote:

> Hello, quick question.
> I have my cube connected to an ethernet network with an ADSL/hub 
> model. I
> want to be able to use my ibook around the house with wireless access 
> to the
> ADSL internet connection.
> Can I simply buy two airport cards, and put one in the ibook and one I 
> the
> cube? That way connecting to the internet via my cube.  Or do I need 
> to buy
> one card for the ibook, and buy an airport base station?
> Thanks in advance. Chris
>
>
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