Wireless internet, range extension?

[Bow-Viper1]

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?

[Sastraxi]

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

[Bow-Viper1]

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

[plenderj]

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

[JoshT]

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

[Bow-Viper1]

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.

[Bow-Viper1]

by the way its an intermec MobileLAN access 2102.

[VisionIT]

Wireless LAN...

Gimmie 5 mins, and let me live next door , 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 ), 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.

[Bow-Viper1]

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.

[Sastraxi]

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