Hello,
I am looking at getting a wireless connection from my neighbours house (my fam- whose connection I pay part of already). It would need to go through two plaster/gib board walls and one (single) brick wall. The distance itself is about 15 m. I have looked into the D-link routers and have been advised that they would work well with our motorola SB5100 cable modem. I am wondering which router I should get? Would the DI-524 router work? would a repeater or antenna gain be needed? if so both or one only? My notebook has got an intel Pro Wireless 3945 dualband 802.1 a/g 54 Mbs minicard, so would be unable to use the 802.11n technology. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Rather than buying a new router could you get/afford a new Cable Modem with wireless capability? Like this:
http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/sbg900/
I have no idea about Cable as I am in Perth - Australia and we have mainly ADSL over copper phone lines.
But if I had the same question from someone in regards to ADSL (not cable) I would recommend they get an ADSL router/modem with wireless built in and keep the old non-wireless modem for "emergencies" (ie never to be used again).
I always prefer one device over two. Less hassle. -
Telstra/clear is our provider for cable internet and they make us rent the modem from them. I am not sure if it is possible to use our own modem. I guess I should look into that since they charge $16/month to rent it from them.
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I would consider getting a router like the linksys wrt54g or motorola wr850g etc. Flash it to a linux firmware (dd-wrt etc) and get a better antenna. This way you can jack up the power of the antenna and thus get better signals.
Wireless connection from neighbours
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by ingies, Oct 2, 2006.