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Title: How can I boost a wireless LAN network signal?
Post by: geodon005 on January 31, 2004, 05:55:08 PM

My school has a wireless LAN network set up and while most rooms receive a fairly strong signal, the office I am in seems to be in an area of poor reception. Can I simply plug in a wireless broadband router (D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, etc.) into the ethernet port in this office to boost the signal to our AirPort-equipped laptops?


Thanks. . .

Don

Title: How can I boost a wireless LAN network signal?
Post by: mooregr on January 31, 2004, 10:38:50 PM

If you have an ethernet jack in the office then a wireless router would give you an additional wireless access point and a better signal for your local computers. The only thing you may want to watch for is to make sure you are not serving ip addresses out over the ethernat network in your school. This could interfere with other computers in your school. Make sure that you connect the wan connetion to the ethernet connectionin the office. Some of these routers have some extra ports for use by local computers and printers in the office.
Hope it helps.
Thanks
Guy

Title: How can I boost a wireless LAN network signal?
Post by: Mayo on February 02, 2004, 01:26:26 PM

The Wireless Networking Starter Kit has everything (and more...) that you need to know.  Easy to understand thanks to the writers and highly recommended.