Thread: Signal extenders

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

True, the solution will depend very much on the specific site.

The suggestion was to get a wired connection to the shed in an inexpensive easy to manage manner - to then add a second wireless point there.

Unless you are dealing with higher end commercial gear, you will generally get a better result by connecting the wireless points to the primary network via a cable than via wireless.

donh54 mentions that they only work across a single circuit, but I am not 100% sure that is true..... pretty sure mine is running across 2 circuits in the same fuse box.... and the interwebz seem to support that can be done.

It may then still be one of your viable alternatives.

Wireless extenders could also be your answer...... but if you need an extender in your aspidistras..... you might yet need that power point anyway

There is a power point on the pine tree, well away from the aspidastras. That is for the wireless extender.
Anything involving cables or plugging signal converters into power points is not an option. It has to be wireless "N".
Do any model numbers come to mind? Lots of posts and not very helpful so far. I didn't think it was that complicated a question.

Originally Posted by Eevo

this doesnt help the OP, but cat5/cat6 can run a max of 100m.

Pretty sure it's a 100 yards or 90 ish meters. I actually meant the max the PoE can run on that particular AP is 30m. Sorry should have clarified.

Originally Posted by bacicat

Maybe this is one of the only IT threads I may be of any assistance with, as I use a wireless Ethernet bridge at work quite a lot. I mainly use it to broadcast a converted CAN signal from a genset to a remote controller, but I also use it for just what your mate wants - I just grab an available Ethernet port and I can be up to about 100 metres with the little antennas supplied, or with some decent Yagi's I can get about 4KM. Runs at 20Mbps.

Only thing is I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, as it is at work, but I can find out tomorrow. It wasn't cheap though - around $700 for the pair. There are cheaper out there, depends on the speed and distance required.

I'm holding out to hear more about this 4km range!

Originally Posted by BadCo.

Pretty sure it's a 100 yards or 90 ish meters. I actually meant the max the PoE can run on that particular AP is 30m. Sorry should have clarified.

its 100m end to end. but end to end includes terminations, etc, so overall it becomes about 90m of actual cable.
i think, been a while since i did my CCNA

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

There is a power point on the pine tree, well away from the aspidastras. That is for the wireless extender.
Anything involving cables or plugging signal converters into power points is not an option. It has to be wireless "N".
Do any model numbers come to mind? Lots of posts and not very helpful so far. I didn't think it was that complicated a question.

All the multi point wireless networks I touch with any regularity are controller based Cisco systems so not relevant to this situation.. So specific models I have had experience with , wont help.

However... how far is it from your current router to the point you want to put the wireless extender?.. How much signal strength ( if any) do you still have at that pine tree from the original router?

What is the model of the existing router/ wireless unit?

The model Ron suggested in post #2 may well work, depending on the above...

As theresanothersteve pointed out, sometimes these things can be less than compatible.... using the same brand at both ends can minimise that.

Originally Posted by BadCo.

I'm holding out to hear more about this 4km range!

You need some bigger antennas to get it that far, but it does do it - its theoretical max range is nearly 25KM, but you need perfect line of sight, so you would be going from hilltop to hilltop. There are plenty of bigger beasts that go even further, but cost go up exponentially. The unit I use is the best sub $1000 unit I could find.

Here we go, found it - http://www.digi.com/products/wireles...pherals/xpress

Looks like they've gone up in price a bit. I paid just under $900AUD delivered. They're at $998USD now for the pair.

I got the data throughput wrong in my first post - not sure where I got that figure from.

The supplied antennas give around 300 metres line of sight, and about half that in and around buildings, trees, etc. I have them stripped out of their cases and I use them with a pair of Yagi antennas. Signal strength at 4KM - the most I've used it at, was about half, but still a strong connection that didn't drop out. Overall latency is around 15mS return at that distance - but that includes another converter at each end the signal runs through before getting to the bridge, which is tolerable for the application I use. That was in a rural setting - flat, but certainly not line of sight. Lots of trees, and the odd building in the way.

Nano station M, currently my favorite model for non critical links.
Commercial grade and relatively cheap for what you get.

Doing 2km easy out of the box, they say 15, with external antenna I suspect

Officeworks has a whole section of wireless extenders.

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