On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:03:49 -0400, Peter Pan wrote:
Can you help me roughly CALCULATE how to increase the range of my
home Internet wireless WiFi setup to a shed 300 feet away
....
I Had a linksys WRT54G in the house attached to my sat,
and used one of the 4 router outputs to daisy chain one to the wan input of
another WRT54G (same ssid) and a semi-directional antenna pointed towards
the garage about 500ft away,

Hi Peter Pan,

Oh my! Is "wireless" daisy chaining workable? Is it that easy?

I did not think I could just daisy chain multiple routers! Are you sure?
(My shed has no power but I think I could run an extension cord into it if
that would make things workable.)

Would I just set the second Linksys router (which, amazingly, has it's own
wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G) in the shed on the
same channel (SSID=12, name = default) as the first router in the house?

That is, could I put one linksys WRT54G in the house (perhaps with one
antenna replaced with a 7 dBd higher-gain directional antenna); and then
put the other Linksys WRT54G in the shed 300 feet away (perhaps with one of
it's antennas replaced with a similar 7 dBd directional antenna)?

Or, is it best to hardwire with cat5 the first router downstairs in the
house to the second router, say upstairs in the attic window pointing the
antenna toward the shed? I didn't even know that two routers could be daisy
chained. That might solve my dilemma.

Can someone confirm that two routers could be daisy chained either by wire
cat5 cable or by wireless signals as long as they use the same SSID channel
and network name? That solution seems to easy to be true ...

Beverly