XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: _arlen.george@halder.edu   
      
   On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:23:49 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
      
   > I have a single WiFi router that reaches all over my house and a little   
   > bit outside.  It really is all I need to access the Internet from my   
   > tablet while I'm sitting on the sofa or out on the deck.   
      
   Hi Cindy Hamilton,   
      
   If you already get good signal to and from anywhere you need to, with a   
   typical cable modem and SOHO router, then you have absolutely no need for   
   the technical acumen and powerful tools that this thread espouses.   
      
   Out here, where I live, above the Silicon Valley, just to give you an idea   
   of the distances involved, we have 40 acre zoning, which means you can't   
   even build a second house if you have only 79 acres of land.   
      
   Yet, we can 'see' millions of access points (literally and figuratively),   
   which means, if we wanted to, we can have a friend many miles away connect   
   his desktop to our cable modem (if we had a cable modem - which is   
   essentially what our "radio" is so it's the same thing in effect).   
      
   More to the point, if I want to beam my signal from my desktop to the pool,   
   which is only a few hundred feet away, I can, and if I want to reach the   
   driveway gate, which is also hundreds of feet from the house, I can.   
      
   Likewise with the barn, shed, shop, and parking area.   
   o All I need is an RJ45 port (on any router, modem, laptop, or desktop).   
      
   What's even better, is our houses are rather large, where we can easily   
   beam to all corners of the house from OUTSIDE the house.   
      
   All we do is connect a Cat5 cable to what you'd call a "cable modem", and   
   then we can beam the cable modem Internet signal back into the house.   
      
   Since the signal is penetrating a structure, it won't go for miles in that   
   case, but it's certainly powerful enough to penetrate to all floors and all   
   corners of the house.   
      
   I can't be the only person on this newsgroup who would like that kind of   
   power at about the same costs as what people are paying today for   
   "repeaters" and "wifi dongles" for their laptops and desktops.   
      
   In summary, you don't need anything whatsoever by way of power & distance   
   o And that's fine - as it's a very useful datapoint which we appreciate   
      
   Hopefully other people enjoy having this kind of power at the same cost.   
      
   --   
   Admittedly, the wifi dongles are tiny compared to this setup!   
      
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