Wireless antenna

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Hi,

I'm a owner of a Wireless Router D-Link DI-624+.

I live in a 4th floor and I want to share my internet connection with a
familiar of mine, he lives in the 3th floor but in the opposite side of the
same building with many walls between us, he has a brand new model of a
notebook with intel's wireless on board.

I'm thinking to buy a directional antenna, model D-Link ANT24-1200 12 dBi

http://d-link.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=606

I wish to ask if that should be enough

Thanks a lot
 
Hi,

I'm a owner of a Wireless Router D-Link DI-624+.

I live in a 4th floor and I want to share my internet connection with a
familiar of mine, he lives in the 3th floor but in the opposite side of the
same building with many walls between us, he has a brand new model of a
notebook with intel's wireless on board.

I'm thinking to buy a directional antenna, model D-Link ANT24-1200 12 dBi

http://d-link.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=606

I wish to ask if that should be enough

Thanks a lot
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I looked into the topic too and was shocked at how expensive it was.
Come on do antennas cost that much to make?

I came across this a pringles can and stew can antenna which
supposedly gets great performance.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi?PigTail

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html
 
sigmun said:
Hi,

I'm a owner of a Wireless Router D-Link DI-624+.

I live in a 4th floor and I want to share my internet connection with a
familiar of mine, he lives in the 3th floor but in the opposite side of
the same building with many walls between us, he has a brand new model of
a notebook with intel's wireless on board.

I'm thinking to buy a directional antenna, model D-Link ANT24-1200 12 dBi

http://d-link.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=606

I wish to ask if that should be enough

Thanks a lot
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Well it certainly seems like enough money! No way to determine if it will
work except to try it - which is worthwhile if (1) you can return the
antenna and get your money back or (2) the cost doesn't matter.

If the wireless nic on your friend's notebook has a removeable antenna, you
might be better off to try putting less elegant gain antennas on both ends,
since the overall gain adds: i.e.; 6dB on each end. This will provide some
noise rejection from other radio sources and probably be considerably less
costly.

In addition to signal loss from everything in the path, you may have
interference problems from other devices sharing the spectrum, perhaps
including others using wireless links. Should be an interesting
experiment!

Roby
 
Hi,

I'm a owner of a Wireless Router D-Link DI-624+.

I live in a 4th floor and I want to share my internet connection with a
familiar of mine, he lives in the 3th floor but in the opposite side of the
same building with many walls between us, he has a brand new model of a
notebook with intel's wireless on board.

I'm thinking to buy a directional antenna, model D-Link ANT24-1200 12 dBi

http://d-link.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=606

I wish to ask if that should be enough

Thanks a lot
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Heres more links if you want to try building it yourself on the cheap

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/881


Link to his book for more "hacks" as he calls them.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks/chapter/index.html
 
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