Range Extender suggestions

A friend has a condo on FL,
but is coming back tonight....

He said his WiFi router/AP is located at one end,
and he needs a better signal at the other end on the balcony.

I've never played with any of the AP Range Extenders....
Any suggestions to try ?
BTW - if they receive and re-broadcast the signal,
how can you tell the difference between the orig and repeated signal ?
Do you usually set them up with different SSID's ?
Do you keep them on seaparete channels - like 1, 3, 7


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"ps56k" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>A friend has a condo on FL,
> but is coming back tonight....
>
> He said his WiFi router/AP is located at one end,
> and he needs a better signal at the other end on the balcony.
>
> I've never played with any of the AP Range Extenders....
> Any suggestions to try ?
> BTW - if they receive and re-broadcast the signal,
> how can you tell the difference between the orig and repeated signal ?
> Do you usually set them up with different SSID's ?
> Do you keep them on seaparete channels - like 1, 3, 7
>
>
> --

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Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:53:24 -0600, "ps56k"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >A friend has a condo on FL,
> >but is coming back tonight....
> >
> >He said his WiFi router/AP is located at one end,
> >and he needs a better signal at the other end on the balcony.

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> >I've never played with any of the AP Range Extenders....
>
> That explains why you're still sane. Range Extenders do work, but
> only if the end points can't hear or see each other. If there's more
> than one path between end points, they get confused.

I use an ASUS WL-330gE to extend the signal (Repeat - uses the ip
address) about 6 meters from a D-Link DWL-G700AP through a couple of
walls to the back of the house. The signal from the DWL-G700AP can be
"seen" by the client - a Powebook FW800 - although the signal is weaker,
but the client connects to the repeater. I know, because I often check
the MAC address

So, as always, it depends...

See if the antenna on the desktop can unscrew. If yes get a better antenna or even an antenna cable to raise the antenna to a higher spot.