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| Thread ID: 120773 | 2011-09-25 21:01:00 | Wireless router - through Caravan ? | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1233566 | 2011-09-25 21:01:00 | Hi Guys I have a freind who has broadband in his caravan, works all OK on a wired modem. We would like to set up a laptop to run in his house upstairs off his broadband connection. The caravan is right by his house. Do you think most wireless routers would be able to send a signal through his caravan walls and upstairs to his laptop ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1233567 | 2011-09-25 21:05:00 | Probably not. Unless you mount the aerial outside | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1233568 | 2011-09-25 21:21:00 | Probably not. Unless you mount the aerial outside Are there issues with rain with outside arials ??? 2.4G being absorbed by water. :thumbs: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1233569 | 2011-09-25 21:23:00 | Mount it somewhere where it wont get wet then :p | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1233570 | 2011-09-25 21:36:00 | So that would mean buying a router with a separate aerial ? All the ones I have seen the aerial sticks up from the router. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1233571 | 2011-09-25 21:53:00 | Well a guy I know is getting WiFi in a caravan from a router in the house, and it works most of the time (but drops out sometimes) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1233572 | 2011-09-25 22:28:00 | Depends on the router. A decent router ought to. Some of the cheaper ones may not. Give it a try, what does he have to lose? I've found no real interference with rain, personally. For the cost of $100 he can get a WRT54GL, and then get a couple of larger antennas from GoWifi or the likes, and bump up the power ouput a little with some custom firmware too. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1233573 | 2011-09-25 22:32:00 | So that would mean buying a router with a separate aerial ? All the ones I have seen the aerial sticks up from the router. They should unscrew allowing you to add a higher gain aerial. What sort of modem/router does your friend have? I would tend to try it first and test your signal strength. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1233574 | 2011-09-26 10:14:00 | yes, depends on the router. Generally the signal of double antennas router is stronger the the single antenna router. Since you used the wireless router in a narrow space, you can buy a single wireless antenna router. What i'm using is called TP-Link( i forgot about the model, sorry). You can give it a try :) | JasmineCassie (16555) | ||
| 1233575 | 2011-09-27 00:12:00 | At the moment he just has a basic ISP supplied modem. He is prepared to buy a wireless router, but of course he'd like to know that it will work before spending over a hundred bucks etc. |
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