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Subject: [Shop-talk] Wifi to the garage
From: dmscheidt at gmail.com (David Scheidt)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 19:24:14 -0500
References: <BB36B1EAB6D74F6FA6006950AF9253D1@dellPC> <4E0F04CB.7000300@hornesystemstx.com> <4E0F43E4.8090908@teleport.com> <COL115-W26C0CB92E2D0115C7D98C4CC5E0@phx.gbl> <4E148EF6.2080908@teleport.com> <COL115-W173EE9A5D12F2F8F478E84CC5E0@phx.gbl>
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jim Stone <jandkstone99 at msn.com> wrote:
> Thanks Richard. B My garage computer is my daughter's old college laptop
(maybe
> 6 years old) with built in wi-fi too, but I recently bought an external
> receiver hopping it would solve the problem, so I can definitely put one on
> each antenna. B I will give it a try and report back.

For less than a hundred bucks, you can buy a commercial, weatherproof
solution.  Something like the engenious enh200 (I've used a slightly
older model, which would also work, and be cheaper.) would do just
fine.  It's powered over ethernet, so all you need to do is run one
cat 5 cable to it, point it at your shop, and call it a day.  couple
km of range, depending.  (Two, carefully aimed, will do a couple
miles, more if you've got optical line of sight.)


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