Re: help increasing receiving signal in japan

Your easiest solution is to attach an external antenna. But if you
dont want that you can get well 2 CB3 units one fitted with a high
gain directional for receiving the signal from the remote AP connected
via ethernet to the other CB3 for your home WLAN network. This should
not cost you more than USD300.00

Remote AP <21dBi grid> CB3 Client <ethernet> CB3 AP mode <WLAN> Laptop



On 11/2/05, Barnaby Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi all
>
> i'm new to this list and hope that someone here can offer some useful
> help with a problem i have here in Japan.
>
> I currently have no home internet and getting it has proved difficult
> here.  Our line is mixed fiber and copper and as such cannot support
> DSL.  cable is impossible as the landlord wont allow the required
> holes to be drilled and fiber to the home (yes they have it here)
> cannot be installed in less than 3 months.
>
> That leaves me with the only viable option of "sharring" a wireless
> connection from a neighbor about 100 yards away.  The connection works
> OK but requires me to set my laptop in a  rather precarious position
> and then cuts off every 15 minutes or so.  The signal is generally
> fairly weak -82 now with an SNR mostly in the single digits.
>
> I'm using a gateway laptop with an integrated mini orinoco card with
> no visible antenna jack.  The access point I'm connecting to is
> unavaillable to me for configuration as its just a random neighbor.
>
> What I'd like to do is get the necessary hardware to try and repeat or
> bridge the signal to my home network OR alternatively and less
> desireably to simpky attatched an extenal network adapter with higher
> gain to my laptop.
>
> Czan anyone suggest a setup or piece of hardware that would enable
> such a configuration...again bearing in mind that i have no access to
> the access point i am connecting to.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> -Barnaby
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