Wifi recommendation (strong antenna vs. repeaters)

Hey,

Friend of mine asked me to wirelessly network his house. They have 3
levels, big piece of land, lots of walls for the signal to penetrate and no
Cat 5/5e/6 strung. Instead of using repeaters in the house, I was
wondering if anyone had used an antenna, sort of like what's used for
cellphones (but weaker). Hooking that up to the wireless router, it
would/should allow the entire house to get reception.

If so, does anyone have any recommendations? Has anyone tried this before?
If not, what, in your experience, has had the best range in terms of routers
and access points (dual band 802.11b/g)

Thanks,
Adam

 

alt.internet.wireless

Duane

 

Didn't know about that one Duane, thanks.

Nonetheless, if anyone here has experience... ;-)
--Adam

 

Not that someone here is not experienced, but the expertise is at
alt.internet.wireless.

Duane

 

I know, I just posted a message there, but I didn't want to discourage
anyone here from responding
Thanks again. --Adam

 

USENET isn't some form of dictatorship, by posting a reply with nothing but
another group, all you do is make the person who posted the message feel
like they were rude or something. To answer the question, I have problems
with computers on the far end of my house having a weak signal. I got some
antennas from Radio Shack which are bigger. They only kind of helped, the
connection is still slow and unstable.

 

Relax General, they are both regulars.

 

Please man don't be going off the deep end with this. What are you going do
here *cry* about it? All I did was send the person to the NG that has the
expertise in the area. There are several people in that NG that can answer
all of the OP's questions as that is their job in the professional world is
to setup wireless networks.

If you're all *that*, then I should see you posting with help there too.
I'll assume that you know that there are wireless cards that will allow the
transmission out to 3,000 feet. There are also so wireless signal boosters
as well. How do I know this, because I frequent that NG and learned?

There is always someone that has to be a *deep ender* as I call them with a
non-sense post.

Duane

 

Ok, no more flames
I'll go with Duane on this one. I posted there afterwards and got a number
of replies fairly quickly.
Thanks again.

 

this is also a good newsgroup to ask any type of computer question. if
someone knows the answer and wants to help then they should. not just tell
someone to go somewhere else. if they don't want to help they should not say
anything. but, it is good to suggest they go to a more specific group that
directly deals with their topic.

i think the antenna deal depends on if the router will let you disconnect
its own antenna and put on a more stronger one. if it can, then this is a
good solution for sure, i have a belkin 802.11G one and it says you can
not remove its antennas.

 

IMHO: There is nothing wrong with a response to try somewhere else but,
only if there are no helpfull replys to the original post.