Help Extending Netgear Range

Greetings, I have a small wireless issue and I'm hoping tome of the
collective experience here can help me out.

I curretnly have Cable and a cable modem connected to a Netgear WGR614
Wireless Router, in the basement/family room on the south side of my home.

The college age kids (home for the summer) are only getting "yellow" to
"red" reception one floor up and on the north side of the house. I thought I
could
buy a repeater, but after reading many of the compatibility stories over on
Amazon.com of the Netgear Wireless Access point, it may not be the answer.
Seems this
is an area where model to model compatibility is an issue.

I have a number of empty wireless ports on the back of the existing router,
I am wondering if I couldn't plug in a CAT5 cable that was 25 feet
long and run it over to the north side of the house and just plug in
another WGR614 Access point? Seems like that might work?

Any thoughts or experience on that?

All responses and suggestions very appreciated.

Thanks!!

Steve L.
Ashby Ma.

"Steve L" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:xdqdnYOUz7yPd2vdRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings, I have a small wireless issue and I'm hoping tome of the
> collective experience here can help me out.
>
> I curretnly have Cable and a cable modem connected to a Netgear WGR614
> Wireless Router, in the basement/family room on the south side of my home.
>
> The college age kids (home for the summer) are only getting "yellow" to
> "red" reception one floor up and on the north side of the house. I thought
I
> could
> buy a repeater, but after reading many of the compatibility stories over
on
> Amazon.com of the Netgear Wireless Access point, it may not be the answer.
> Seems this
> is an area where model to model compatibility is an issue.
>
> I have a number of empty wireless ports on the back of the existing
router,
> I am wondering if I couldn't plug in a CAT5 cable that was 25 feet
> long and run it over to the north side of the house and just plug in
> another WGR614 Access point? Seems like that might work?
>
> Any thoughts or experience on that?
>
> All responses and suggestions very appreciated.

Just a thought....... The signal from the AP antenna radiates in a circle
around it. If the antenna is pointing vertically then there will not be much
signal above or below it. If, however, you align the antenna horizontally
pointing East-West then the signal will form a semicircular arc from North
to South and rising vertically up through the higher floors. That might just
be enough to get you a better signal without any further expense or faffing
about.

Good luck,
Tim.

Steve L <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I curretnly have Cable and a cable modem connected to a Netgear WGR614
> Wireless Router, in the basement/family room on the south side of my home.

> The college age kids (home for the summer) are only getting "yellow" to
> "red" reception one floor up and on the north side of the house. I thought I

Try some reflectors. Yours sounds like my situation, the WAP is all the
way at one end of the house, so you don't care about, and don't want,
signal going farther south. You want to redirect it to the north.
Also remember that the radiation pattern is like a doughnut, so you might
want to tip the antennas off vertical, aiming them broadside (not pointing)
at the desired area. Ant the WAP should be up as high as possible.

< http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/S...0-strength.htm >


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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5

Great little reflectors there, I think I'l lgive that a try!

Thanks!!

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cd6rnp$egf$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Steve L <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > I curretnly have Cable and a cable modem connected to a Netgear WGR614
> > Wireless Router, in the basement/family room on the south side of my
home.
>
> > The college age kids (home for the summer) are only getting "yellow" to
> > "red" reception one floor up and on the north side of the house. I
thought I
>
> Try some reflectors. Yours sounds like my situation, the WAP is all the
> way at one end of the house, so you don't care about, and don't want,
> signal going farther south. You want to redirect it to the north.
> Also remember that the radiation pattern is like a doughnut, so you might
> want to tip the antennas off vertical, aiming them broadside (not
pointing)
> at the desired area. Ant the WAP should be up as high as possible.
>
> < http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/S...0-strength.htm >
>
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> Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5
>

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:08:09 +0000 (UTC),
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Try some reflectors. Yours sounds like my situation, the WAP is all the
>way at one end of the house, so you don't care about, and don't want,
>signal going farther south. You want to redirect it to the north.
>Also remember that the radiation pattern is like a doughnut, so you might
>want to tip the antennas off vertical, aiming them broadside (not pointing)
>at the desired area. Ant the WAP should be up as high as possible.

Clarence why do you favor that particular reflector...as opposed to
the parbolic?

TIA

brian-s-jones-at-comcast.net wrote:
> Clarence why do you favor that particular reflector...as opposed to
> the parbolic?

I wasn't talented enough to make a parabolic that would hold its shape.
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects...ry/OneSoup.jpg
The corner reflectors are EZ ;-)


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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5