How far does Wireless go?

dhjjessel

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My mum lives on the fourth floor of a building in london and i am renting the ground floor in the same building. i want to use her internet so i am considering setting up a wireless router. Is there one with a stroung enough signal for this distance? is there any way of knowing for sure??
 
How long is a piece of string?

I doubt typical consumer grade kit will do it in off the shelf state, or if it did you would get an unstable signal. If you wanted to do it cheaply you could give it a try with wireless router of your choice and have a go at this http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17583744.

Or you could look into the more expensive business grade access points and perhaps high quality directional antennae. Tbh though I doubt there'd be much advantage to this if the first method works.

However I wouldn't be surprised if doing so would be against the terms of service of the ISP.

Hope this helps, null :)
 
Without going into massive and complex detail i have seen that most decent brand name wireless routers manage about 3 floors straight up with a useable signal.

The best proffessional method i would reccommend (due to having just implimented it here in a large hotel) would be a buffalo router and a buffalo airstation placed somewhere between the router and the target computer. These devices can bridge (share) wirelessly therefore once configured the 'airstation' needs only a power point in the wall to operate while the router is hooked up to the phoneline/cable. This will set you back about £120 give or take and is very easy to set up.

Other methods like null mentioned involve high gain antennae which im playing about with at the mo. Im gonna test an apparent 30dB chinese noodle scoop to see if it really can provide a ~10km straight line range!! if it does you can definately broadcast it upstairs this way. (also range downstairs would remain reasonable.)

hope this is useful
 
how about a crossover cable of some kind?
i could just stick something out the window i suppose. How about usb-ethernet wire? or usb-usb wire?
what would i need to set this up?
 
As above.

Get a 50ft Patch cable going from the router, out the window, down the wall, through your window, into your PC.

NEXT
 
would this be a suitable router?
US Robotics 4Port 10/100 Broadband Router
can i connect this to the broadband computer via usb or ethernet only?
 
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Do you have ADSL or cable? When they are described as broadband routers they are for cable. You will have to connect both computers with a network cable to the router.

Anyone know if cat5 cables are waterproof?
 
well get the lay the cable from your router up the wall to your mars house at the other end connect it to a switch or ap :)
 
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if i have an ethernat card in both my computers, can i just connect a patch cable between them, and then configure windows to share the network>?
 
ok so if my modem plugs into my computer via usb, i can get a router that plugs into the modem instead (via usb) and then plug both computers via ethernet into the router?
 
If your modem has just the USB for outside world then forget all about the router thing. There is no router with USB input. I'm afraid ICS is your only choice. With or without wireless.
 
drupi said:
If your modem has just the USB for outside world then forget all about the router thing. There is no router with USB input. I'm afraid ICS is your only choice. With or without wireless.
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partially ignore this advice. No offence drupi but if he bought an adsl modem/router then he would have no trouble and at no extra cost. And i have never in my life seen a cable modem without ethernet.

Thus although in principle you are wholly correct, no routers offer USB connections, if you are on ADSL you would be mad to buy something that wasnt directly listed as an "ADSL modem router" and if you really wanted to save the few quid by going router only then you should look for a bundle offering modem + router (i recently got a buffalo router + ADSL 2+ [ADSL 1 compatible] modem for only £2 more than the router alone lol)

For your scenario i suggest ADSL modem/router combi and probably a long cable. Personally i'd take the wireless + extensions route but from your posts cost appears to be an issue so fell free to enjoy your unsightly wires all u like :)
 
dhjjessel said:
would the modem/router at the bottom of this page solve all my problems?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_DSL___Cable_Modems_418.html
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No, that's just a modem, not a router. You need to look at this page:

Link

The Netgear DG834 is the only thing that would do the job on that page. Or, if you want a router with wireless, check this page:

Link

Steer clear of any router that states Cable/DSL as these will have ethernet ports only - you want a specific ADSL router which will have an in-built ADSL modem.
 
Most wireless works best line-of-sight.
If you can see an access point that's miles away you can probably connect to it (with an appropriate antena on each end).

Can you make a wave-guide, stick it out the window, and put another one at the other end?
That'd probably do it with standard hardware.

Take a look at aXis from OCAU - the man is a wireless guru!
 
Phemo said:
No, that's just a modem, not a router. You need to look at this page:

Link

The Netgear DG834 is the only thing that would do the job on that page. Or, if you want a router with wireless, check this page:

Link

Steer clear of any router that states Cable/DSL as these will have ethernet ports only - you want a specific ADSL router which will have an in-built ADSL modem.
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Agreed. The netgear DG834 btw is a very good router tbh although for some reason netgear has a poor rep :confused:
 
so i buy this and it replaces my onetel fujitsu broadband modem, and also atcs as a router so i can run two computers off it?
 
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