Jeff Liebermann - since you seem to be the one in the know

Jeff Liebermann - since you seem to be the one in the know, I have a
question for you, other may comment on this as well.

I have DSL and a Buffalo WHR-G54S with DD-WRT v23 SP2 firmware, looking
at this unit settings for wireless mode I see AP, Client and Client Bridged.

Now for the situation and questions, in the near future, I hope I will
be selling my home and hitting the road in an RV to travel this great
country of ours. However, I will not be able to make it without Internet
access (what has the world come to).

The question is a lot of RV parks have Wi-Fi, however it is not always
available throughout the complete site. What is the best way to get this
to my RV and share it with both my wife's and I laptops? These laptops
have built in wireless adapters I would prefer to keeps using these and
not get an external USB or PCMCIA adapter. I know an external adapter
would allow me to change the antenna to a higher gain, but I would have
to do this to both PC.

I am thing a small dish type antenna or some other high gain directional
antenna connected to the WHR-G54S that can get the signal to the RV
and the let the two Laptops connect to the WHR-G54S, would something
like this work? Would I need more than one WHR-G54S? I have read
somewhere that I could use this in bridge mode however, I would need
access to the parks Router to enter my MAC Address, I know the park is
not going to allow this, so what are my options? Also, even it they did,
my WHR-G54S in bridge mode would connect to the parks router wirelessly,
so I would have to connect to it through wired ethernet, but I still
want the Laptops to use wireless connections? Also in the the setup that
you recommend if there is any WEB site as to how to set this up, the
links would be greatly appreciated. Need to know thing like SSID the
same or not, Channel must be different.


Thank for you time in this matter,


Danny Kile

>Danny Kile <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>The question is a lot of RV parks have Wi-Fi, however it is not always
>available throughout the complete site.
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As a full-time RVer, my experience is that you're right: More often than
not, coverage often does not cover the entire park with a strong signal.
I solve the problem with a Hawking adapter, either the HWU54D or HWU8DD.
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Dave

Dave Rudisill wrote:
>> Danny Kile <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> The question is a lot of RV parks have Wi-Fi, however it is not always
>> available throughout the complete site.
> <snip>
>
> As a full-time RVer, my experience is that you're right: More often than
> not, coverage often does not cover the entire park with a strong signal.
> I solve the problem with a Hawking adapter, either the HWU54D or HWU8DD.
> <snip>
>

Thank you Dave, I have considered both of those. However, I was hoping
to have one setup I could use on both Laptops, this arrangement would
require Two such setup one for each Laptop. Also if I could get the
network access from a remote bridge/AP then we both could connect at the
same time and we could also have a local LAN in the RV, allowing file
and printer sharing. Thank you for the input and keep it coming I will
consider all input.

Danny Kile

OK. Until you hear from Jeff, here's an appoach:

You want wireless inside your RV for two pcs, so you want an access
point (AP) inside the metal box.

Your current router will do that nicely.

You want a client/bridge that will work well outside the metal box to
connect with the site's network: For that, the best is probably to
have seperate client/bridge/router-ish guy outside.

A second one of the same Buffalo routers or perhaps the High Power
version (HP) which is a bit more...powerful.

The high-power one should be the outside radio/client.

Then you run an ethernet cable from the outside one's LAN port to the
inside router's WAN port for your local network.

If you want to further increase your connection capability, you get a
directional antenna or better yet, one of those panel antenna boxes
that has/is a directional antenna and the router goes inside for
weather protection.

You put that on some sort of pole/swivel mount that you set
up/telescope when you arrive and aim appropriately.

To get fancy, you have a power outlet and an ethernet jack in a
weatherproof box that you plug into when you pull out (or telescope up)
your router/client box upon arrival.

Voila! you got it all.

Of course you will have to learn enough to handle the various setups,
but that's quite do-able. With the Buffalos you could also do
aftermarket firmware, but it's probably not needed. They already have
a "bridge mode" switch on them.


Steve

"seaweedsteve" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>OK. Until you hear from Jeff,

Jeff is out of it for a day or so. Kidney stone. Ouch.

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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Danny Kile <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

Fast answers:
<http://mactom.com/mactom.main/?section=RV&subsection=DataComm&page=Wi-Fi+Internet>

The last two installs I did used motorized spotlight mounted on a
small pedestal and with a 14dBi panel antenna hung over the top and
fastened to the back of the light. When moving, it was just pivoted
down until horizontal. I'll see if I can find some photos. These
Go-Light's are available at most marine dealers, but I bought them on
eBay for about $100.
<http://www.golight.com/products/golight.html>
The big headache was running the coax cable. I just punched a hole
through the roof and left a huge 3ft service loop. Ugly, but I didn't
want to butcher the spotlight too much.

More when I recover...

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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> "seaweedsteve" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:
>
>
>>OK. Until you hear from Jeff,
>
>
> Jeff is out of it for a day or so. Kidney stone. Ouch.
>
Hi,
Really? Go to a health food store. Buy a product called Chanca Piedra
(stone breaker in Latin coming from Amazon jungle) Take this two
capsules 3 times a day with Marshmallow capsules. You'll know it works
in about 3 days. I know it from others experience. My hobby after
retirement is a Chartered Herbalist.

I missed earlier that you are already running DD-WRT.

Of course, instead of installing the 2nd router outside, you could just
run a short low-loss cable from it to an exterior directional antenna.
The motorized light mount does look cool.

Here's the inexpensive panel antenna that we are using:

https://secure.hyperlinktech.com/web/hg2412p.php

Sorry I can't help much on the setup. Different channels. Different
IDs.

Cheers,
Steve

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> "seaweedsteve" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:
>
>> OK. Until you hear from Jeff,
>
> Jeff is out of it for a day or so. Kidney stone. Ouch.
>

Hope you get to feeling better real soon.

Danny,

"Danny Kile"
| >
| >> OK. Until you hear from Jeff,
| >
| > Jeff is out of it for a day or so. Kidney stone. Ouch.
| >
|
| Hope you get to feeling better real soon.

If Jeff is reading this ask your doc if DOXAZOSIN would be approprate for
the your stone.