Update:
After considering all the alternatives, I just bit the bullet and
re-trenched the driveway. Dropped in a flex conduit and
brought back from the guest house, three CAT5 cables, all
less than 150' each, and installed one in the wife's upstairs
office, one in the downstairs library and another in the family
room. Found a great electrician that fished in all the lines
with no wall damage (2-1/2 hours total for the inside the house
work) and everything works GREAT!
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Steve Hammatt
Mount Vernon WA USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Boicey" <tboicey@brit.ca>
To: "John Innis" <jdinnis@gmail.com>
Cc: "Steve Hammatt" <GSteve@hammatt.com>; "Shop Talk"
<shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Wireless Internet Networks
> John Innis wrote:
> > I disagree with this approach for one specific reason. THe standard
> > that allows wireless networks to use repeaters does not support WPA.
> > WPA is a newer security protocol that provides much better protection
> > than the old WEP.
>
> Interesting point.
>
> If this is important to you then, there are commercially available
> antennas that will solve the problem faster than crufting one out of a
> pringles can. ;>
>
> Some brands (linksys) have boosters that sit on top of your current
> router and apparently boost power. I'm not sure how they do this since
> to me I thought the original ones used maximum legal power anyways, but
> I know one person who solved his problem this way.
>
> I suspect they are RF only devices that don't interpret or care about
> the underlying traffic and encryption.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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