On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:07:39 -0500, lid wrote:
Here is an easy way to hack your $60 wireless router into a $600
router (they use Linksys as the example):

Wow. I've never "modified" a router before but that is interesting that one
can increase the $75 Linksys WRT54G router
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G) RF output from 28 millwatts up to 251
milliwatts (http://tinyurl.com/lpk7w).

Being true to the original intent of this thread, how do I CALCULATE what
that does to my range?

Is this 9 dBd calculation of the modification roughly correct?
a) Power gain = Power2/Power1 = 251/28 milliwatts = 9x power gain
b) Range gain = sqrt(Power gain) = sqrt(9) = 3X range gain
c) Range = original range * range gain = 100 feet * 3 = 300 feet

Beverly