Re(2): [Antennas] Can we talk about WLAN antennas here?

[DavidE Benedict]

wcj9996 at comcast.net,Internet writes:
>David:
>
>Perhaps a range extender would work fro you.  Allowing you to use you
>laptop 
>anywhere inside your house.  I don't know if any have separate TX & RX 
>antennas.  If not perhaps putting it near a window would allow its
>antenna to 
>see both your laptop and the one next door.
>
>  walt
>
>
>On Friday 28 July 2006 11:17, DavidE Benedict wrote:
>> Can we talk about WLAN antennas here?
>>
>> I don't see why not. I am a HAM...and we all learn good things here
>> regardless of area of application...right?
>>
>> Well I had an old laptop which had a card which had an antenna jack to
>> extend the range. I used it with a smallantenna outside because I can
>then
>> connect to my nighborhood while inside my aluminum-siding home. The
>small
>> antenna I used was just to overcome the coax loss at 2.4 gigahertz.
>>
>> FINALLY, THE QUESTION...
>> My new laptop has the same problem but no antenna jack to add an outside
>> antenna, so,...
>> 1) Has anyone ideas about how to boost the antenna in these new ones? I
>> suspect the antenna is in the flip-up screen's enclosure.
>>
>> 2) Maybe an antenna outside and an equivalent of an antenna inside and
>> near to the laptop?
>>
>> Anyone tried to do this and perhaps been successful ...before I begin to
>> explore home made hardware answers?
>>
>> David B.
>> Mobile in NW Oregon
>>
>>
>> 

Is a "range extender" a piece of hardware one buys?

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