Range, and setting up a wireless system

I am a novice, and am considering setting up a simple wireless system
that would allow me to share an internet connection from my home to
computer in another building on our farm property. The two buildings
are approximately 150 - 200 feet apart. The "base" station is near a
window, and the "client" computer is located just inside the barn,
also near a window.

I picked up a Belkin wireless router and desktop card last week, but
the reception was so poor that I was unable to connect to the other
end of the house (45 feet), much less outside or across the way to the
barn.

Is there another router/card maker that has better range? And would
you suggest a product from your catalog that could supplement the
system, increasing the range of a "over-the-counter" system that I am
considering?

Thanks for any help or suggestion you could provide.

Mattk wrote:
> I am a novice, and am considering setting up a simple wireless system
> that would allow me to share an internet connection from my home to
> computer in another building on our farm property. The two buildings
> are approximately 150 - 200 feet apart. The "base" station is near a
> window, and the "client" computer is located just inside the barn,
> also near a window.
>
> I picked up a Belkin wireless router and desktop card last week, but
> the reception was so poor that I was unable to connect to the other
> end of the house (45 feet), much less outside or across the way to the
> barn.
>
> Is there another router/card maker that has better range? And would
> you suggest a product from your catalog that could supplement the
> system, increasing the range of a "over-the-counter" system that I am
> considering?

If your AP and Client Card have detachable antennas, you can add range
extenders. Have a look here http://www.cantenna.com and here
http://www.fab-corp.com/ and if you are handy with such things, you can have
a look at this http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html or this
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 and this last one describes
how to make directional reflectors
http://osiris.urbanna.net/antenna_de...ects/template/

"Mattk" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am a novice, and am considering setting up a simple wireless system
> that would allow me to share an internet connection from my home to
> computer in another building on our farm property. The two buildings
> are approximately 150 - 200 feet apart. The "base" station is near a
> window, and the "client" computer is located just inside the barn,
> also near a window.
>
> I picked up a Belkin wireless router and desktop card last week, but
> the reception was so poor that I was unable to connect to the other
> end of the house (45 feet), much less outside or across the way to the
> barn.
>
> Is there another router/card maker that has better range? And would
> you suggest a product from your catalog that could supplement the
> system, increasing the range of a "over-the-counter" system that I am
> considering?
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestion you could provide.

For that short a link, you can probably build a couple of reflectors for
almost nothing.

www.freeantennas.com


Bob