[Hidden-tech] extended range wifi needed

Jill Connolly jillvox at jillconnolly.com
Wed Jul 6 15:23:41 EDT 2011


Hey, Dan -
A friend of mine recently told me about this product, and LOVES it: "10X better wifi range"

See if this'll do the trick:  http://betterwifirange.com/

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On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Dan Nachbar wrote:

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> 
> I have an "off the grid" wifi application (it's for
> realtime data collection) where conventional wifi
> doesn't have quite enough range.  
> 
> I need about 700 feet, outdoors, generally unobstructed,
> and line of sight. There are four data collection locations.
> Each data location needs to connect to a central location.
> All of the data locations are within about 180
> degrees of azimuth with respect to the central location.
> I don't have the option of putting repeaters between the
> central location and the data points.
> 
> I've tried several amps and antennae from several different
> web stores but they don't seem to do much better than
> the little "rubber duck" antennae on the usual boxes.
> 
> In contrast, I've had good luck with some 1-watt mesh-y
> units (i.e. Ayrston's Ayrmesh boxes -
> http://www.ayrstone.com/products.html )
> But these units always need to "contact the mother ship"
> at boot-time.  So "off the grid" doesn't work.
> 
> Anybody have a good source for higher powered wifi units?
> I'd like to get away from Ayrmesh if general. They are
> pricey and I hate having to rely on their website in order
> to boot.
> 
> Alternatively, it is possible that I'm botching the set-up
> of the amps/antennae that I already have.  Is there a good
> resource (website?, book?, person?) on the process and pitfalls
> of this sort of thing somewhere?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dan Nachbar
> 
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