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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
On Fri, 22 May 2015 13:05:20 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 05/21/2015 12:12 PM, Ken Blake wrote: [snip] You're talking about an *electric* drill. Holes can be drilled with manually-operated drills too, which are considerably less expensive, and for someone who doesn't have to drill a lot of holes, they can be adequate. My father used to have a manual drill that looked like an eggbeater (crank and gears). I have three drills: 1. One like what you describe 2. A brace 3. An electric drill (I used to have two, a smaller one and a bigger one, but the smaller one died) |
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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
On Fri, 22 May 2015 14:58:28 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 13:10:00 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: I lot of people seem to have forgotten what an "ethernet cable" is, and insist on using wireless unnecessarily, when a cable is simpler and more reliable. I totally agree. As do I. |
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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
In alt.windows7.general message 6ftrla9h325b5lhcbsu685uptu10bnld7k@4ax.
com, Thu, 21 May 2015 10:22:56, Char Jackson posted: On Thu, 21 May 2015 05:38:01 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:49 +0000 (UTC), Werner Obermeier wrote: Steve Hayes wrote in : It works through a wall, but, unlike drilling a hole (think of the cost of a drill) it works in any room of the house, and in other places where I might want to use WiFi too. I agree. Drilling a hole would work in my own home, but not in someone else's apartment just so that my kid could get net signal while on a summer visit. Especially when the drill you would have to buy to do it would probably cost more than the extender gadget anyway. Don't most people have a drill? Even if a person doesn't already have one or more, they start at about $30 unless you can wait for a sale or you don't mind shopping at Harbor Freight. Prices start at under $20 at HF, but you can do much better if you wait for a sale. Heck, you can also buy used and probably get down around $10. The OP is referring to travel in Europe, so you should either quote European prices or include the cost of transporting the drill and any necessary adaptors. On the other hand, many Europeans already own drills, and many more have friends who are skilled drill users. Indeed, I myself once purchased, at work, an item of US-built equipment through a UK importer and then wanted an extra hole at the back of it. On being informed, the importer immediately offered to send me, FOC, some ready-to-install UK holes. -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. E-mail, see Home Page. Turnpike v6.05. Website http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms PAS EXE etc. : http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/ - see in 00index.htm Dates - miscdate.htm estrdate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc. |
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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
1. WiFi extender on the laptop (about $50)
USB dual band 2G / 5G (~$30-$50) on a long USB cable extender so you can position/rotate for the best reception. See: http://www.pcworld.com/article/20905...the-limit.html 2. Extend the range of the home broadband router (probably around $50) Replace the router with Amped R20000G ($120 amazon) high power router or equivalent. I have this one and it is good. Unfortunately range extenders (e.g. AP20000G) have problems! Do not use. I tried and some of my WiFi devices will NOT connect through the range extenders. So I had to reposition my R20000G. Remember the days of TV rabbit ears? They're back ... lol 3. Tether the cellphone to the laptop (using the data plan) battery drain if it works. -- -- No signature --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
On Fri, 22 May 2015 13:10:00 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 05/22/2015 09:38 AM, Char Jackson wrote: [snip] Drilling a hole wasn't my proposed solution. My proposal was to simply string an Ethernet cable between the two balconies. It's cheap, fast, very effective, and ugly. It's temporary, though, so the ugly part can perhaps be forgiven. I don't consider something ugly if it has an important function. I lot of people seem to have forgotten what an "ethernet cable" is, and insist on using wireless unnecessarily, when a cable is simpler and more reliable. I have put Ethernet cables in our ceiling that go from our router to my study and my son's bedroom. We both use de4sktop computers that did not come with wireless adapters. I also have a laptop computer (Toshiba Satellite) that does have a wireless adapter, but but I use it in the sitting room where there is no Ethernet cable and its WiFi connection wasw always showing weak or no signal. When travelling, it's WiFi connections were unreliable more that 5m in direct line of sight with no obstables from the transmitter, so I bought a Bear Extender and can now use it in our sitting room, and when we stayed with my wife's cousin in Windhoek, and stayed in a cottage 20 metres from their house, and the signal had to go through not one but three brick walls, it worked just fine. It also worked in a guesthouse in the Okavango Delta, where the cottage we were in was about 40 metres from the main building. I doubt that they'd have fancied me drilling holes in the intervening walls and stringing Ethernet cables for a two-night stay. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
Once upon a time on usenet Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Werner Obermeier writes: [] Googling, this web site says the maximum power in the USA is 1Watt (30 decibels) while in Europe, it's a puny 250mW (24 decibels). http://www.afar.net/tutorials/how-far/ Just to be pedantic - that's dBmW, i. e. decibels relative to 1 milliwatt; decibels express a _ratio_. (It could also be expressed as 0 dBW and -6 dBW.) Given that the USA allows four times the power that Europe allows, it's probably best to set up a radio for the USA, but, we'll lose the two channels you're speaking of as a trade off against that power gain. A factor of 4 (6 dB) surprisingly often isn't that significant with radios. To the person who was wondering how we handle having the extra two channels when defaulting - from what I've seen, we seem not to; most routers here still seem to default to channels 1, 6, and 11. In principle, I see 1,6,11 2,7,12 3,8,13 as viable options. Which is why I asked. That much channel spacing is needed, according to this article. I wish they'd shown the skirt overlap with the final channel choices. If they'd jammed four assignments in there, the thruput would drop in the city (competition). http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs...de/Channel.pdf Paul I've been playing with my router settings. The channels available here in New Zealand are the same as Europe (I don't know about transmit power though). I downloaded Wifi Analyzer for my tablet and see that my best option here would be channel 1 - it has the least traffic. (I'm on the fringe of urban, I see around seven other routers, all set to 1, 6 or 11.) However when I try to change to 1 when in router settings my only options are from 5 upwards or 'auto'. For some stramge reason I can't select anything below 4. The router is a NetComm NB604N and despite much web searching and pdf reading I can't find a solution to my problem. I tried setting to channel 13 but neither my tablet (Samsung Tab 3 8") or my laptop (ThinkPad T60) could connect and it didn't show up in Wifi Analyzer. :-/ So for now I'm staying on 11. Between 6 and 11 11 seems like the better option. That said I might try 9. shrug Thanks for the info in this thread. I've not bothered with wireless much as my laptop and desktop and both tethered to gigabit ethernet and when I got the tablet it just worked once I put in the passphrase. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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Traveling in Europe (need good WiFi extension for Windows)
Werner Obermeier wrote in :
What is a good wifi extender solution for Windows laptops in Europe? Here is an update. I bought the Ubiquiti Nanobeam M2 radio, which can extend WiFi more than a few miles, so, it should enough power. http://i.imgur.com/hBndic1.jpg I didn't have any choice for countries other than the US, Canada, or PR, so, I chose to set it up for the US: http://i.imgur.com/CumFEI1.jpg I'm logged in, right now, to that nanobeam radio at its default IP address of 192.168.1.20 with the default ubnt/ubnt login/password: http://i.imgur.com/CumFEI1.jpg Right now, I'm stuck as to how to set up the radio so that it rebroadcasts its Internet signal. I just opened a new thread in alt.internet.wireless to ask for help getting past the current setup hurdle! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!fo...ernet.wireless "Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio" |
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