A friend of mine has a home computer with a wireless routert. It is
on the west side of the house about 40 feef wide. There is a 10 foot
driveway, then the garage for a range of about 85 feet from the router
to the spot for the computer in his garage with about 25 feet inside
the garage. It is his wife's computer and I really don't want to
change anything so if anything goes wrong in the future, he won't get
blamed. I have a Dell laptop with a wireless PMCI card and was able to
get a signal 10 feet into the garage. I thought that since the
wireles card we got (Linksys RangePlus) had dual antennas, we could
reach the 15 feet further necessary to get to his computer. We
installed the card and fired the computer up. No signal. We worked on
the system for a couple of hours, and no luck. We were unable to move
the computer to the same spot that I could get the signal from my
laptop to test the signal. I also purchased a RangePlus router as
well but didn't install it hoping the existing equipement would work
(see wife reason above).

What options would you do to get to the garage.

1)Install the new router? I would do this since it would be the least
invasive. I was unsure of the RangePlus being enough stronger to send
the signal into the garage. The garage is a wood frame and there are
flourescent lights,cable tv, and a wireless telephone in the garage.
Would this interfere with the signal? Would the RangePlus be strong
enough to overcome the interference if any.

2) Move the router closer to the garage. This is the not as an
attractive option but again could weget it close enough to the garage
to work.

3) Run cat 5. Least attractive since we would have to run the wire
outside and couldn't bury it.

4)Use the internet across electrical wires. Has anyone done this and
is it viable.?

TIA for your answers and observations.

goodfella wrote:

> 4)Use the internet across electrical wires. Has anyone done this and
> is it viable.?

I have 85 Mbps Intellon based adapters, very happy with it.


Regards,
--PA

I have had good luck with a Wi-Fire device out to about 1000 feet or so.

http://www.hfield.com

It uses a USB port on my laptop. Recent comments here...

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r208...can-get-signal

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HI
If the computer is a Desktop and the Wireless Antenna is stuck behind the
case it might not see the signal.
If such is the case get a card that has independent antenna that can be
placed above the system.
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833315041
Otherwise replace the current Antenna with High gain Antenna that points
toward the Wireless source.
P.S. The number of "sticks" is not an indicator to its capacity Antenna
capacity is measured by dbi.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"goodfella" wrote in message
news:8a000e2d-ca7f-4182-b915-733c4cf821d9@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>A friend of mine has a home computer with a wireless routert. It is
> on the west side of the house about 40 feef wide. There is a 10 foot
> driveway, then the garage for a range of about 85 feet from the router
> to the spot for the computer in his garage with about 25 feet inside
> the garage. It is his wife's computer and I really don't want to
> change anything so if anything goes wrong in the future, he won't get
> blamed. I have a Dell laptop with a wireless PMCI card and was able to
> get a signal 10 feet into the garage. I thought that since the
> wireles card we got (Linksys RangePlus) had dual antennas, we could
> reach the 15 feet further necessary to get to his computer. We
> installed the card and fired the computer up. No signal. We worked on
> the system for a couple of hours, and no luck. We were unable to move
> the computer to the same spot that I could get the signal from my
> laptop to test the signal. I also purchased a RangePlus router as
> well but didn't install it hoping the existing equipement would work
> (see wife reason above).
>
> What options would you do to get to the garage.
>
> 1)Install the new router? I would do this since it would be the least
> invasive. I was unsure of the RangePlus being enough stronger to send
> the signal into the garage. The garage is a wood frame and there are
> flourescent lights,cable tv, and a wireless telephone in the garage.
> Would this interfere with the signal? Would the RangePlus be strong
> enough to overcome the interference if any.
>
> 2) Move the router closer to the garage. This is the not as an
> attractive option but again could weget it close enough to the garage
> to work.
>
> 3) Run cat 5. Least attractive since we would have to run the wire
> outside and couldn't bury it.
>
> 4)Use the internet across electrical wires. Has anyone done this and
> is it viable.?
>
> TIA for your answers and observations.
>