Wireless internet, range extension?

Ok, Upstairs I have a cable modem and computers, and a wireless atenna thing ( Sorry forgot the name :) ) hooked up to it, and then in a laptop I have the wirless card, and it all works well except it reaches my whole house except about the furthest 10 feet which is my room, where I want it. So my question is, without running any cable, keeping the wireless, is there a way I could extend the range of it by a little, like maybe adding another antenna in the middle of my house as a bridge? Anyone have any ideas?

I believe it's called a "Wireless Access Point", and you need another one.

ok, and is there a way again, to use it as a "bridge", and do this without having another PC in the middle of the house. Maybe plug it in to an electrical outlet? I cant really think of a place to put another PC in the middle of the house so If thats what it needs, I may just have to run cable :(

Like Sastraxi said, you just need another wireless access point.
Its not a whole computer, just a little gadget :)

You could also check the manufacturer of the wireless card or access point's web site if they have better antennas for it.

right, but what i meant to ask in my last post, is right now I have my wireless access point plugged into my cable modem via router, and plugged into an electrical outlet ofcourse. If i get another WAP, am I just going to have to plug it in to a power outlet? Checking the web right now but if anyone knows please reply.

by the way its an intermec MobileLAN access 2102.

Wireless LAN... :rolleyes:

Gimmie 5 mins, and let me live next door :D, and i'll intercept your frequency! It's soooo damn simple to do!

My friend had his internet shared by a suppose'd friend n'xt door, and he was just cutting in on his connection. Wish our pals next door had it ;)

Sastraxi's right (again :p ), you'll need another WAP to reach your connection. Don't do the most common thing and place it right at the end of range...

Leave it just a few feet short, and your connection will be much stronger. IE...

WAP1 or BASE............>>RANGE>>............................>>NEW WAP (WRONG)

WAP1 or BASE............>>RANGE>>.....................>>NEW WAP>>.... (Correct)

Hope you get the pathetic diagram ;)

Regards,

Paul.

No I completly see what your saying, im actually going to put it as close to the main WAP as I can, esspecially after finding out that you lose 30% speed with each hop, but thats not too bad. Thanks for your guys' help.

Wireless LAN is 11 megabits, your typical DSL internet uses less than 1 megabit =). However, you may have cable which isn't "limited" per se, only by speed of the resulting server. For example, on my cable, I have gotten download speeds of 750 kBytes/s because the server on the other side wasn't handling much.... I hope you get my point ;)