On 6/3/2011 8:04 AM, moronsbegone wrote:
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Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way :-(


chuck a USB WiFi Dongle at the focal point and see how
far/many WiFi routers you can hit?

Regards,
JS



I used to have a 1 watt USB dongle, came from china ...

I am thinking you might still be able to locate one on ebay?

Anyway, let me know what you find. I am going to be setting up a long
range link in the near future, for a friend.

Regards,
JS

John Smith wrote in
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On 6/3/2011 8:04 AM, moronsbegone wrote:
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Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way
:-(


chuck a USB WiFi Dongle at the focal point and see how
far/many WiFi routers you can hit?

Regards,
JS



I used to have a 1 watt USB dongle, came from china ...

I am thinking you might still be able to locate one on
ebay?

Anyway, let me know what you find. I am going to be
setting up a long range link in the near future, for a
friend.

Regards,
JS



I appreciate the reply, it seems my Alfa ½ watt [bs-rating=
1/10 watt] is making the grade with 4 access points reliably
so it's just the little boy ego in me that seems spoiled when
110 access points are showing up and only a handful can hear
me. Then again it's real crowded here and channel bleeding or
some other 'Over crowded' phenomenon is dissing my male ego. I
sort of feel like a dumb truck driver running 1500 watts to
talk to the driver behind me9 In respect to the industry and
moral conscience I do not want to splatter my neighbors with a
gazillion watts and make their 5 bar connections slow because
of me and rf splatter. You guys know so much more then I it
isn't funny, don't want to sound like a moron but this "Dish"
theory is a hidden treasure right under everyone's nose and it
amazes me that just putting a retired Dish Network disk 13"
behind the Alfa USB WiFi with the 3 DB gain Vertical ground
antenna on it gives me a 5 bar signal from what used to be a
1. The reason I am picking on this one AP is that I have the
owners blessing to use it, so why not focus on the legal one.
Sure I am willing to hack a stranger's one if I have to, but
here is a case where I don't, so I won't. But up till now his
signal was week, now it's good, but experimenting with the
other unsecured AP's there are some that are 3 bars and can
not get a handshake for more then 10 seconds at 1 MBPS
Then PWAffffffft!!! I am bumped off then on then off then on…
Weird I say.
But it has all the symptoms of an Elephant base station, all
ears no mouth, and I am Irish I don't take custom to things
that way, generally the other way around LoL.
But I don't want to be a CB Rambo moron and ruin it for
everyone else; I am on line at a steady 54 MBPS right now so
why bother. Just Ego I guess or interest in the science maybe.
By the way the Dish is Indoors!!! I used to be a HAM, tech
license but let it laps years ago. Can't stand the FCC's
attitude.