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df11
11-15-2009, 02:21 PM
will this work for me?
I hope this is right. I have a trailer in a park that has wifi for the main sites but I'm on a permanent grass site a little ways away and can't quite get the signal unless I put my laptop in the car and move a couple hundred yards closer to their antenna. Now I do have a linksys wrt54gs V6 and I made a bi-quad antenna to hook into it. I know my Version router is not good for dd-wrt so I want to know if it will work to boost the signal enough to work in my trailer as is? I can mount the bi-quad outside the window and have router inside (3' cable) and use cat5 cable to the laptop. Does it matter which of the antennas on the router I use? do I disconnect the other?:noidea:
I guess I don't have to tell you I'm totally new to this.

mabs
11-15-2009, 03:44 PM
will this work for me?
I hope this is right. I have a trailer in a park that has wifi for the main sites but I'm on a permanent grass site a little ways away and can't quite get the signal unless I put my laptop in the car and move a couple hundred yards closer to their antenna. Now I do have a linksys wrt54gs V6 and I made a bi-quad antenna to hook into it. I know my Version router is not good for dd-wrt so I want to know if it will work to boost the signal enough to work in my trailer as is? I can mount the bi-quad outside the window and have router inside (3' cable) and use cat5 cable to the laptop. Does it matter which of the antennas on the router I use? do I disconnect the other?:noidea:
I guess I don't have to tell you I'm totally new to this.

might try a cantenna

df11
11-15-2009, 04:42 PM
I mentioned that I had built a built a bi-quad antenna.:yes:

mabs
11-15-2009, 05:51 PM
I mentioned that I had built a built a bi-quad antenna.:yes:

well a cantenna dont hook into your router, it is a stand alone unit the plugs into your computer/laptop. if you cannot get your router to be a repeater, it dont help modifying the antenna that are hooked up to it.