There is more interferance in a wireless network than you think. That
includes framingof the house, cell phones, home phones, water beds
youname it.

With that said n done not only CAN you mess around with the antenna on
that uni but you should try (if you havent already) changing the
channels of communication on the wireless router.

A company called SVEASOFT has after-market firmware for the WRT54G lets you
do things like increase the power level and change the antenna usage, and
much more. $20.00 a year for access to their latest firmware loads.

You might want to try external antenna as well, the stock antennas have very
low gain (if any at all?)

Also adds something called WDS - Wireless Distribution System. I used this
on a large yacht job to increase the wireless range. Of course that uses
some of the bandwidth to do that, but at 54 Mb/s who cares? We had this
yacht on DirecWay Satellite (when in the dock) on one end (one WRT54G) and
on SeaTel ocean going Satellite on the other end (the other WRT54G). Both
had the same gateway, like 192.168.0.1, so whichever one was turned on (the
DirecWay or the Seatel) worked as the gateway for all computers.

He had a few problems awhile back, I had him on an original version of the
SVEASOFT firmware. I had him upgrade to a newer version. Most of his
problems I think stem from power glitches when they get underway and
throttle between shore power and ships generator power. He's defaulted the
boxes at least once and re-configured, but now he hasn't called me in a few
months ... I checked with him recently and everything is working ok for him.

I've seen my WRT54G's do some weird things. When I used it directly to make
my PPPoE DSL connection it didn't seem to let me go to certain sites. I
never did figure out why, and I'm a networking guy. I usually use my main PC
as the connection and router anyway ... and the WRT54G's are behind it.

I, myself (and company) are looking for a way to share 802.11 HotSpot
Internet with a mobile platform such as a boat in one box. I tried the
Client mode in the WRT54G's but it seemed flakey to me. Maybe I wasn't doing
something right. Or maybe they were too close together (a few feet apart)
during my testing, on the same exact channel. But they have to be on the
same channel to communicate.

--
Alan Spicer (a_spicer@bellsouth.net)
Systems, Networks, Telecommunications

"Stephen" wrote in message
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> I noticed there are a lot of threads dealing with problems with this
> router. I have had pretty goo luck with it but I do have one question.
> Has anyone fooled with the antennas to improve its range. I live in a
> townhome with concrete slab floors. I think it affects my reception. I
> have positioned the router in the most efficient place but the
> reception is good and bad. Anyone have any ideas to improve this.