I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater... Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot. Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently out of range due to the height. DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi "repeater", which will allow me to "reach" that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? (I deploying one or more repeaters throughout our offices so that I can reach the public hotspot.) Of course, it's also better if that repeater masks who I am to the real hotspot, and terminates encryption on both sides. But of course, I don't want it to cost a ton, and I probably don't want anyone else to be able to use it either. One nice application of this is to be able to regularly send messages from this public spot, but without anyone every actually seeing me. And if the "last" repeater is in these (private) offices somewhere, it's doubtful anyone would ever be able to tell that this is occurring. Or so I believe... -TD _________________________________________________________________ Expand your wine savvy and get some great new recipes at MSN Wine. http://wine.msn.com
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:20:15PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi "repeater", which will allow me to "reach" that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so?
How about an antenna, instead? It would work if you have line-of-sight. If you're really looking for a repeater, check the comments from the community 802.11 groups, like Seattle Wireless: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/PassiveRepeater
I can't be considered an expert on this technology, so probably there is another, much simpler solution. The first idea (and so far the only one) I got is to use a pair of wireless access points, eg, DWL-900AP+ ones (the only ones I have experience with so far); if I'd have a pair of these, I'd configure one to access the hotspot, and connect it by a crossover Ethernet cable with the other one, configured to be on another channel and use WEP and to be accessible only by you. On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater...
Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot.
Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently out of range due to the height.
DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi "repeater", which will allow me to "reach" that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? (I deploying one or more repeaters throughout our offices so that I can reach the public hotspot.)
Of course, it's also better if that repeater masks who I am to the real hotspot, and terminates encryption on both sides. But of course, I don't want it to cost a ton, and I probably don't want anyone else to be able to use it either.
One nice application of this is to be able to regularly send messages from this public spot, but without anyone every actually seeing me. And if the "last" repeater is in these (private) offices somewhere, it's doubtful anyone would ever be able to tell that this is occurring.
Or so I believe...
-TD
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Forget about repeater. 13-15 db flat panel antenna will get you access to distant APs - up to one mile in favourable conditions. 18db grid dish will connect you to omnidirectional AP within 2 miles. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
At 11:20 AM 1/6/2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater...
Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot.
Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently out of range due to the height.
DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi "repeater", which will allow me to "reach" that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? (I deploying one or more repeaters throughout our offices so that I can reach the public hotspot.)
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