My 4 year old Telecom Thompson router keeps cutting out. I have a man shed about 100-150mts from my house and I am looking for a method of connecting mainly to get away from the wife and kids while being able to watch Isky in there or just cruise trademe. Picture this...beer fridge...old lounge suite correctly fitted to my butt. and my laptop and old crt screen. Would be in heaven. I guess cable is an alternative but is it possible that some flash wireless router would reach that far ? or what is my alternatives.
I would be very surprised if a Thomson TG585 router (assuming that is what it is) could transmit/receive at 100metres,
I have it from a very reliable source (Minister) that a Thomson TG585v8 can hold a signal without any drops at 27metres (measured with google maps) using a Toshiba notebook with an internal also ran 802.11n WiFi card. I never asked him about signal strength as he's not techie like that.
This is a connection between two builds with clear line of sight and passing through only the outer walls of each building.
My own Thomson TG585v8 does not have the signal strength of my Linksys E4200v1 with the wireless boosted to 100mW. On my notebook I get a -60dBm signal at 15metres with approx 4 internal walls (and maybe a bit of a bathroom mirror) from my E4200v1 using a 2.4GHz 40Mhz channel. With that signal on my notebook, I can get a 64-84Mbits/s transfer rate.
I believe I could probably get a usable signal on my notebook at approx 80metres/7metres elevation (Google maps) down the road with clear line of sight to the house using the E4200v1 with only the external wall in the way, however I've never tried it. My mobile phone picks up my E4200 at approx 80metres from the house with a -90dBm signal (old 802.11G) so my notebook with a better WiFi card probably would have a chance.
However, it's not just the router you need to consider, it's the device transmitting the signal back.
You need an equally strong transmitter in any PC/Notebook to maintain the signal.
It may be possible to get two powerful routers (with external aerials) and bridge them wirelessly.
I'm guessing a man in a shed with a CRT screen doesn't have a very powerful WiFi transmitter in whatever device the signal is being return on.
Having the devices elevated as high as possible at both ends doesn't hurt either.
NewTeach: My 4 year old Telecom Thompson router keeps cutting out. I have a man shed about 100-150mts from my house and I am looking for a method of connecting mainly to get away from the wife and kids while being able to watch Isky in there or just cruise trademe. Picture this...beer fridge...old lounge suite correctly fitted to my butt. and my laptop and old crt screen. Would be in heaven. I guess cable is an alternative but is it possible that some flash wireless router would reach that far ? or what is my alternatives.
100 Meters is really pushing the envelope to expect a laptop to reliably connect to a router, Thompson or otherwise. Since you obviously have power to the man shed (for the CRT etc), and this presumably comes off the house, why not try a cheap-ish ethernet over powerline solution.
Router --> Adapter at the house end, Adapter--> Laptop at the shed end. I have even seen some Netgear kits on run-out at JB HiFi a month or so ago for around $150 that had a 4-port router for one end.
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#101548 4-May-2012 00:27
