clueless wireless question

[Raymond Russell]

On Apr 10, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:

> Hi;
>
> The guy that rents our apartment above our garage is a Google geek and
> has just today got a cable modem installed and us less-geek-like
> landlords have cable envy.  So we're trying to figure out how to get a
> wireless network set up.  He uses a Mac with an Apple Airport Extreme
> box that connects to the cable modem.  It is, in essence, a wireless
> modem (I think that's the correct term).  We'd like to continue to use
> the Airport Extreme because it also has a firewall inside that our
> GoogleGeek can configure.  We plugged an external antenna into his
> Airport Extreme to increase signal strength, but still do not have
> quite enough range.  The Airport Extreme has a LAN port on it also.  So
> my question is:
>
> Can I buy a wireless modem that will plug into that LAN port that will
> give us boatloads of unidirectional signal?
>
> If so, then can anyone also suggest a brand of external wireless modem
> that I can plug into my linux box for which there are linux drivers?
> (I'll let my wife struggle with her Windoze laptop by herself ;-)  )
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>

Why not just move the Airport Extreme (APE) base station.  Your other 
option is to use a wireless
card that can take an external antenna.  The APE is an 802.11g unit but 
I'm not sure which
802.11g cards will work with Linux.  802.11b cards will also work with 
the APE.

There are quite a few different external antennas that will fit the APE 
you might be able to find
one that will get the signal out to you.


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Ray Russell
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Public Access Unix
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