[X4U] Help with Wireless, Airport, Repeater

[Jens Selvig]

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...