Hey,
I want to boost the wifi from my home, about 150m outdoors, and into
another building,
Anyone have any good ideas on the best way to do this,
At the moment im thinking cheap outdoor wifi ap, in both places?
Nick
If you’ve got conjoined electrical ring mains, you can use an
Ethernet-over-power boxes to bring the networks together, but if not,
DD-WRT and OpenWRT boxes both do bridge modes, as does the FON2.0N in
developer mode.
Jon “The Nice Guy” SpriggsOn 20 January 2014 13:56, Nick Ruggles ndruggles@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I want to boost the wifi from my home, about 150m outdoors, and into another
building,Anyone have any good ideas on the best way to do this,
At the moment im thinking cheap outdoor wifi ap, in both places?
Nick
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I remembered reading this a while back. Apparently, you can go up to 6km with some chicken wire and other stuff.
Just trying to be helpful 
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From: “Nick Ruggles” ndruggles@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, 20 January, 2014 13:56
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Subject: [HACMan] Wifi-Extender
Hey,
I want to boost the wifi from my home, about 150m outdoors, and into
another building,
Anyone have any good ideas on the best way to do this,
At the moment im thinking cheap outdoor wifi ap, in both places?
Nick
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Hi Nick,
Using WLAN in bridging mode could be a quick and easy solution. Many
TP-Link routers support Openwrt and could provide a relatively cheap
solution.
here at the Warpzone Hackerspace in Münster we’ve had terrific success
with simple “Cantennas”.
The simplest way to construct one we found was to cut away the plastic
around the Antenna on the 2,4GHz antenna that came with the router
(leaving the plastic around the connector) leaving us with a metal ring
(GND) from which the insulated antenna wire juts (don’t be surprised -
it’s only a couple of centimeters long regardless of how long the
plastic part of the antenna was).
Punch or drill a hole at the appropriate position (use an online
cantenna calculator to work out where that is for your can dimensions),
this should be a push fit for the metal GND ring on the antenna.
Poke the Antenna through the hole until it reaches the "height"
specified by the cantenna calculator. Solder the GND ring directly to
the can. You can strengthen the Joint after soldering with hot glue,
Sugru or Epoxy.
Build time <20 Minutes.
If you don’t want to use the Antenna that came with the router you might
have a bits box with an old bricked or obsolete router that has an
antenna with a compatible connector.
With this construction on both ends we have easily bridged over 1 Km
(admittedly over Water).
Since the strength of the beam is concentrated significantly by the
antenna you may want to reduce the transmitted power on both sides of
the bridge for safety reasons. Remember reducing power by half leads to
only a 3dB drop in signal strength.
Of course the success of the link also depends on other local
environmental factors such as obstacles that absorb or reflect the
microwaves within the Fresnel Zone of the Link. Your Mileage may vary.
If you want to weatherproof the antenna you can span a plastic freezer
bag over the mouth of the can tape it in position and spray the whole
thing with a non-metalic paint.
The cans we used were Aldi’s Ravioli but almost any can between 3 and
four inches diameter that you can solder to will probably do!
StuCAm Montag, den 20.01.2014, 05:56 -0800 schrieb Nick Ruggles:
Hey,
I want to boost the wifi from my home, about 150m outdoors, and into
another building,Anyone have any good ideas on the best way to do this,
At the moment im thinking cheap outdoor wifi ap, in both places?
Nick
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