[Shop-talk] Wifi to the garage

[Mike Rambour]

  wire the garage and be done with it, so easy and so much faster than wi-fi


     mike

On 07/06/2011 09:22 AM, Jim Stone wrote:
> I am dealing with the exact same issue as Bob.  The signal to my garage, which
> is only a couple of hundred feet from the wireless router, comes and goes.
> Besides general surfing to find the answers to car-related questions, I
> frequently listen to Pandora in the garage (great internet radio station, if
> you have never tried it) and it will work fine for minutes to hours, then quit
> because the signal isnt strong enough.  I am hoping something like Richard's
> Parabolic Reflector will help.
>
> Richard: I have two questions for you:  first, do you put one of these on both
> the router and the receiver?  And second, does the foil go on both cutouts or
> just the rectangular backing?
>
> I will report back on how everything worked.
>
> Jim
>
>
>    
>> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:14:28 -0700
>> From: rkg at teleport.com
>> To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Wifi to the garage
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> +1 on the wap/antenna - I built some of these and they helped a lot:
>>
>> http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> rkg
>> (Richard George)