Re: Wifi range

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Wifi range
Date	2015-07-17 06:20 +1000
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Max <max@val.morgan> wrote 

> What is the range of a standard wifi router?

There is no such animal. 
 
> What is the best way to extend wifi from 
> a house to another building 15m away?

Depends on what you want speed wise. 

The simplest way to do it is with a wifi repeater
which receives the wifi from your router and 
retransmits/repeats it and place that half way
between your router and the remote place
you want to use the wifi. But because of the
technology, that works at half the speed of
the router, because it has to receive the packet,
then retransmit it, and so gets half the thruput. 

The alternative is to run a CAT5 cable to the
repeater and use it in that mode. That no only
fixes the speed problem but allows you to 
have the repeater operating on a different 
wifi channel to the router and so you don't
get any interference with the router. 

You can buy repeaters that do that for peanuts,
like $20 or so and the good ones do both modes
and also have an access point mode that allows 
you to make say a basic printer into a wifi printer etc. 

There are also extenders that communicate over the
mains and that allows you to put another wifi at the
remote end just by plugging both components into
the mains. I don't like these as much tho because 
the use of the mains limits the speed significantly.

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