[TriLUG] OT: Device for Improving WiFi Reception?

[Pete Soper]

Folks,
   Range extenders come with complications. Adding an effective antenna, 
or at  most new wifi interface with an effective antenna is the right 
choice. In an assisted living center you need something that is 
absolutely transparent and trouble free with no implications with 
respect to the folks running the assisted living center. If they have to 
call corporate about your network equipment you're toast, completely 
apart from the hassle every time their hot meal cart sits next to the 
extender and hoses up its performance. For the cost of about 12 hours of 
assisted living fees one can get a superb solution already described by 
others.

-Pete

On 12/15/2014 02:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:00:07 -0800 (PST)
> Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at austintek.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Scott Chilcote wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I swung by Intrex on my lunch break and found a TP-Link indoor
>>> antenna with cable and base for cheap.
>> Hope it works. I would expect that a better solution is one that
>> doesn't modify the laptop and hence require an elderly person to keep
>> track of bits and whether they're plugged in correctly etc.
>>
>> My approach would be to put a wap somewhere in her appartment, in a
>> spot with max signal, with as many antennas as are needed to connect
>> as a client to the present wifi system. Give it its own SSID and let
>> her connect to that.
>>
>> Joe
> If you're going to do that, can't you just buy one of those Wifi range
> increasers at Costco?
>
> SteveT
>
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