Connecting outdoor antenna.

Hello -

I have my SOHO WiFi set up using a Dlink G604T with the usual dipole
arials and it all works fine, including the printer.

The G604T is permanently on, and any computer can start and be
instantly networked and online.

The challenge is to connect an exterior +12dbGain directional antenna
to my existing net so I can read a security camera signal from a
distant building. This is to be permanently on too, so my preference
is to somewhow feed the signal into the G604T router.

The G604T has one only antenna.

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, "compac" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hello -
>
>I have my SOHO WiFi set up using a Dlink G604T with the usual dipole
>arials and it all works fine, including the printer.
>
>The G604T is permanently on, and any computer can start and be
>instantly networked and online.
>
>The challenge is to connect an exterior +12dbGain directional antenna
>to my existing net so I can read a security camera signal from a
>distant building. This is to be permanently on too, so my preference
>is to somewhow feed the signal into the G604T router.
>
>The G604T has one only antenna.
>

So another AP on the network (about $50 to $60) is out of the question? Due
to budget or not understanding that the router fuction can be turned off in
mst APs on the market?

If the budget thing isn't the issue, just add another AP to the current
network (plugged into the switch, assign it an IP outside the range your
DHCP server is handing out and problem solved. One extra advantage you can
make sure the 'new' AP has a connector on the back that is easy for you to
attach the antenna. One thing you might investigate if budget isn't too
strict, a weatherized AP, the closer (wire wise) you can get the AP to the
antenna the better your results will be.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

Hey Thanks Rico

Sorry to be thick, but can't see what you mean, If I hook up the
outdoor antenna to the AP, how can it then send the signal on to my
existing WAP? Would I need a WAP with 2 antenna connections?

"plugged into the switch" - do you mean physically (LAN?) wire it to my
WAP?

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, "compac" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hey Thanks Rico
>
>Sorry to be thick, but can't see what you mean, If I hook up the
>outdoor antenna to the AP, how can it then send the signal on to my
>existing WAP? Would I need a WAP with 2 antenna connections?
>
>"plugged into the switch" - do you mean physically (LAN?) wire it to my
>WAP?
>

Ethernet cable from old AP with switch to new AP eternet port (crossover
maybe required, but with newer switches, unlikely)

AP --------- AP
cat5^

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

This is a brick house where I have my SOHO, and the reason for the
wireless net is because cat5 cables are not practicable.

I will have an exterior directional antenna off the front corner of the
house where it can get LOS signal from the camera, the DLink WAP is at
the other end of the building.

I can understand the
AP --------- AP
cat5^
link OK, but the whole point of this exercise is to avoid the cat5
cable and use wireless.

"compac" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com...
> This is a brick house where I have my SOHO, and the reason for the
> wireless net is because cat5 cables are not practicable.
>
> I will have an exterior directional antenna off the front corner of the
> house where it can get LOS signal from the camera, the DLink WAP is at
> the other end of the building.
>
> I can understand the
> AP --------- AP
> cat5^
> link OK, but the whole point of this exercise is to avoid the cat5
> cable and use wireless.
>

It can't be done - see my many attempts to have the same effect, though in a
different setting...

Most recent failure was the thread titled AP access hardware, 1-18...

L8R

Skip

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In <(E-Mail Removed) .com> on 27 Jan 2006
18:17:13 -0800, "compac" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>This is a brick house where I have my SOHO, and the reason for the
>wireless net is because cat5 cables are not practicable.
>
>I will have an exterior directional antenna off the front corner of the
>house where it can get LOS signal from the camera, the DLink WAP is at
>the other end of the building.
>
>I can understand the
>AP --------- AP
> cat5^
>link OK, but the whole point of this exercise is to avoid the cat5
>cable and use wireless.

Connect a 2nd AP to your network with powerline networking; e.g.,
IOGEAR GHPB32W4 Powerline Networking Kit
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833139119>

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