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Old 11-15-2006, 05:41 PM
John Navas
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Default Re: extending range: torn between "expensive but supposedly safe" and "risky, but cheap and geekishly rewarding"

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:34:17 +0100, hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel
Hammerschmidt) wrote in <1houwni.1xh69001thqu04N%hlexa@hotmail.com>:

>John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
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>> Instead of a simple repeater you can use a wireless Ethernet bridge
>> (that can support enough clients) cabled to a wireless access point on a
>> different non-overlapping channel; i.e.,

>
>What sort of router are you assuming the Wi-Fi Router is? This router
>(which the OP already has) will have to share bandwidth amongst stations
>connecting directly with this router as well as the bridge.


Of course. But a simple repeater only makes things (much) worse by
cutting the available wireless bandwidth in half. With a remote access
point on a different non-overlapping channel, full Wi-Fi bandwidth is
preserved.

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