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Broadband Wi-fi routers with best range


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The computer store wireless routers are pretty limited. If you want to get some serious range, you need the kind that they put in hotels and convention centers that cost a couple of grand. A typical hotel installation will have a few transceivers to cover the whole building, with some of them on poles out in the parking lot with a directional antenna pointing toward the windows.

 

A friend of mine is sharing his T1 line with an across-the-street neighbor. Theyt're using a pair of D-Link wireless bridges (a not too expensive computer store item) with "Pringles can" style directional antennas. They're running about 300 feet with good transmission stats.

 

For what it's worth, I get almost double the distance in my house with my new laptop computer which has a built-in wireless setup than I did with my old laptop in which I was using a PCMCIA wireless card. I have real lath-and-plaster walls that make pretty good shields and on a good day, I can get from one end of the house to the other, about 75 feet.

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