XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
From: rmblayrrroy@nlnet.nl
Rod Speed actually wrote:
> Unfortunately I had forgotten that he uses wireless link
> radios, not exterior wifi APs and managed to not make
> it clear that I want an AP at my place that the neighbour
> can see with all their devices inside their house. They
> donąt have any internet service, let alone a router,
> which is why they are using my wifi.
Actually Rod, I'm already doing EXACTLY what you plan on doing.
In fact, I already have three access points in the basement for all the
iDevices and Android devices that anyone wants to use down there where the
grandkids play.
Here is a picture of all three of them.
https://s26.postimg.org/hwz0upjwp/accesspoint.jpg
1. LinkSys WRT54G router acting as a wired repeater & as a 2.4GHz AP
2. Ubuquiti NBE-M2-400 acting as a 2.4GHz access point for mobile devices
3. Ubiquiti Rocket M5 acting as a 5GHz access point for mobile devices
So that's 3 different access points you see in that photo I just took for
you (plus the T-Mobile femtotower on the left for the Cellular Signal
access point).
In addition to using those three radios each as access points, I also have
a radio on an upper floor hooked to a desktop computer Ethernet port where
the antenna is just sitting on a box, pointing straight down. It acs as a
WiFi card connecting to the router two floors down (which is the opposite
of what you're trying to do).
This radio acts as a powerful directional WiFi card for a desktop computer
where the radio it plugged into the Ethernet port of the desktop computer
(which is the opposite of what you're doing - but still a powerful radio
connected to a weak router).
https://s26.postimg.org/uffmbagw9/wificard.jpg
4. Mikrotik RB411/RB52n-M acting as a WiFi card for a desktop computer
And, of course, I have a rooftop WISP radio that connects to another one
that is three or four miles away as the crow files (20 miles by road).
5. Ubiquiti Rocket M5 acting as my WISP transceiver for Internet service
It's a mixmash, but all of us in the mountains have so many radios that we
use them like you would spare pens and pencils whenever we need to paint an
area with signal.
So, to summarize, I'm doing exactly what you're doing which is I tied two
access points to a router so as to extend my signal to the puny iDevices
which weren't picking up the signal that the Android devices were getting
from the Linksys router .
Now everyone is happy, but the distance is only about 50 feet that the
iDevices are from the radio's you see in that photo. There's a wall since
they're inside, which is thick concrete (since this is in a basement), so I
never tested how far it can go.
You have the same setup - only you need it to go 150 feet both ways.
Mine certainly goes 50 feet both ways but I didn't test it further than
that.
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