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Wireless Routing QuestionI am using a 24dbi Yagi antenna with a built-in USB wifi adapter
(Atheros Chipset zydas1211b802.11b/802.11g) for internet access. This antenna/adapter combo is connected via a 15 foot USB cable to my desktop USB port. This works extremely well. What I would like to do is to route internet access from my desktop to all areas of my home wirelessly. Can this task be accomplished? What equipment would be required? Thanks in advance for any advice. Ted wrote:
> I am using a 24dbi Yagi antenna with a built-in USB wifi adapter If you know about terms like "24db" and "Yagi", you are already far > (Atheros Chipset zydas1211b802.11b/802.11g) for internet access. > This antenna/adapter combo is connected via a 15 foot USB cable > to my desktop USB port. This works extremely well. > What I would like to do is to route internet access from my desktop > to all areas > of my home wirelessly. Can this task be accomplished? What equipment > would be required? > Thanks in advance for any advice. > beyond the level of expertise of many posters in this ng. Initially, whether you can effectively reach "all areas" of your home via wifi depends on the size and construction of your home. If you have a small wood frame house, you probably can; if you have a large multi-story home with old-fashioned plaster walls with wire screen or expanded metal lath, you probably will have problems. There probably are a few ways to accomplish your goal, but the first thing that comes to mind is to buy a regular home wireless router, connect it to your desktop, and configure Internet Connection Sharing. This has the drawback that the desktop must be on whenever any other computer needs to access the Internet. You would configure this router to use a different channel than the one used by your antenna/adapter. -- Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm Hi
To follow on Lem's advice. Once you have a Wireless Router before you configure ICS you to decide on one of few options. 1. Configure the Wireless Router as an Access Point and do the entire Routing trough ICS. All computers would be on the same network with the Main Routing computer, but the wireless network might not be very stable. 2. The Wireless router is connected to the main computer through the WAN port. You would have more stable Wireless network but the main computer would be on its own Network, and when you need to open ports, you would have to work through two Firewalls. 3. Solid but more expensive solution. Buy a high power Wireless client device like this (it would replace the current USB/ main computer concoction), http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162168 Connect the Yagi to it and feed its output to the WAN port of a Wireless Router. On the LAN side of the Router, you can configure a regular cohesive Wires/Wireless network. P.S. The Channel of the local wireless has to be different then the channel of the receiving Wireless. Jack (MVP-Networking). Show quote "Lem" <lem***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23cDlKq1IIHA.4584@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Ted wrote: >> I am using a 24dbi Yagi antenna with a built-in USB wifi adapter >> (Atheros Chipset zydas1211b802.11b/802.11g) for internet access. >> This antenna/adapter combo is connected via a 15 foot USB cable >> to my desktop USB port. This works extremely well. >> What I would like to do is to route internet access from my desktop >> to all areas >> of my home wirelessly. Can this task be accomplished? What equipment >> would be required? >> Thanks in advance for any advice. >> > > If you know about terms like "24db" and "Yagi", you are already far beyond > the level of expertise of many posters in this ng. > > Initially, whether you can effectively reach "all areas" of your home via > wifi depends on the size and construction of your home. If you have a > small wood frame house, you probably can; if you have a large multi-story > home with old-fashioned plaster walls with wire screen or expanded metal > lath, you probably will have problems. > > There probably are a few ways to accomplish your goal, but the first thing > that comes to mind is to buy a regular home wireless router, connect it to > your desktop, and configure Internet Connection Sharing. This has the > drawback that the desktop must be on whenever any other computer needs to > access the Internet. You would configure this router to use a different > channel than the one used by your antenna/adapter. > > -- > Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking > > To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer > http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm  |
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