Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 4, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: First of all, wifi in Israel is heavily regulated. It's limited to 100mw EIRP (radiated) power, so gain antennas, higher power transmitters, etc are illegal here. If you use a gain antenna, you have to offset it by reducing output power or u

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread Dotan Shavit
On Friday 04 June 2010 09:36:52 Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Can I somehow connect a second wireless Access Point by ethernet cable, and > then connect that Access Point (by wireless) to the first, main Access > Point ? (something like a bridge). > You can. I know that Edimax supports this (check the m

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4 June 2010 16:36, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Can I somehow connect a second wireless Access Point by ethernet cable, and > then > connect that Access Point (by wireless) to the first, main Access > Point ? (something like a bridge). > I saw something which is called > Wireless Distribution System

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread shimi
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hello, > > This is a bit uncommon question: > - I have a PC running linux in a basement which is quite far from > the Access Point of the house. > I want to take advantage of this place to work and to be able to connect > to the Internet fro

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: Otherwise, maybe try Ethernet-over-power solutions like http://www.netcomm.com.au/products/ethernet-over-power, I was warned by one guy (without personal experience) that they don't always work and could depend on quality of the wiring in your h

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4 June 2010 17:46, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > I'm really confused though, Amos are you saving that intstead of running a 2 > or 3 meter cable behind some shelves you are trying to use a wifi > connection? Not 2-3 meters, more like about 30 meters under the carpet across the entire unit's leng

Re: ADSL2+

2010-06-04 Thread Meir Michanie
Hi List, I decided to try the D-link. The interface/features is bad compared to wrt-54 on Linksys. Using wrt i could see my connection uptime and very fast know if the connection went down. I couldn't find that feature in the d-link router, maybe reading syslog, ... Also in wrt you can connect/dis

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread moish
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:36:52 +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hello, > > This is a bit uncommon question: > - I have a PC running linux in a basement which is quite far from > the Access Point of the house. > I want to take advantage of this place to work and to be able to connect > to the Internet

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Moish and thanks for your answer. > By definition, you just need to connect the repeater to power and > that's it. I would like to be sure that I got you right: 1) Didn't you made any setup (via the web interface) to the router you term "the repeater" ? 2) Did you connect the wireless router