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| Thread ID: 126029 | 2012-08-03 00:15:00 | long range wireless setup laptop friendly? | 4134me (16857) | Press F1 |
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| 1292451 | 2012-08-03 00:15:00 | Hi everyone I'm new here, not particularly computer savvy so forgive me if this is a stupid question... I live on a farm in the Wairarapa and run (stupidly overpriced) satellite internet. Due to some large hills the dish could not be mounted on the house so is mounted approx 500m away and the signal is sent wirelessly to the house. I previously had a pc which had a connection for the (N?) connector from the recieving antenna. The PC has now died and i have bought a laptop which does not have the required connector, just the usual ethernet jack. Is there a simple way of converting from the N connector from the antenna to an ethernet cable? Or could i run another wireless router in the house? The laptops' inbuilt laptop wireless antenna is not good enough to get a decent signal from the long range transmitter. I am not worried whether the laptop will need to be plugged into an ethernet cable in the house or not, just whichever is easier and cheaper. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Adam. |
4134me (16857) | ||
| 1292452 | 2012-08-03 00:19:00 | www.gowifi.co.nz would this simply plug into the recieving antenna and a home wireless router to give a good wireless signal for the laptops' inbuilt wlan? |
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| 1292453 | 2012-08-03 00:34:00 | Buy an wifi extender? Connect that to your signal, and it will extend it. Then, you could connect the lappie to the extended singal. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1292454 | 2012-08-03 01:03:00 | Cheers Nick G So would this range extender basically replace my current receiving antenna? |
4134me (16857) | ||
| 1292455 | 2012-08-03 01:18:00 | What a wifi extender does is it picks up a signal, and then stregthens and extends it, so you can access wifi from a longer distance from the router. So, what should happen here is that the extender connects to the weak signal that is being broadcast, and then extends and strengthens it. So, your laptop should improve the signal so your laptop can connect. Also, good to see you're not a bot :) |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1292456 | 2012-08-03 06:23:00 | Trying to get the picture - about your previous setup.... So your previous PC had an internal card which received the wireless signal from the satellite dish and you watched TV on your PC monitor? Does your laptop have the TV viewing software installed? Does your laptop have a tv receiver built-in or external (USB) tv adaptor? I'm trying to figure out where your previous tuner was (in the PC?) and what you have in the laptop to help you receive tv. |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 1292457 | 2012-08-03 08:50:00 | Hi Coldot Nothing to do with tv here only internet. I live well out of broadband and even dial up range so need to get my internet via satellite, which is then sent wirelessly 500m to the house and picked up again by a powerful antenna. Nick G, extender sounds ideal just a bit worried whether it will have the grunt to pick up a distant signal? trying to use the laptops inbuilt antenna is not just dodgy but impossible. Cheers |
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| 1292458 | 2012-08-03 09:20:00 | And the desktop could do it? What sort of a wifi card did you have on your desktop? | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1292459 | 2012-08-03 09:42:00 | I didn't install whatever was in the pc so couldn't comment sorry and it is now gone, all i know is that it accepted the N connector from a large external antenna like this: www.gowifi.co.nz I was under the impression that a standard ethernet cable would carry the same type of signal as the cord from the antenna, just with a different plug. but it appears this is not the case? Sorry i'm getting rather confused! |
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| 1292460 | 2012-08-03 13:09:00 | Did your old laptop have a card that plugs in the side? It sounds like you have a wireless bridge set up, with one end of the bridge being a wifi card in your laptop connected to an external aerial. You need a wireless access point that is compatible with whatever access point you have on the other side of the bridge, then feed that into a normal wireless router for wireless around your house. The Ubiquiti Bullet might work. Edit: Sorry I misread your question - thought you had a laptop before, not a desktop. Can you please post a picture of the PCI card & a model number if possible? |
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