In an open warehouse, I have gotten a (barely) useable connection at 250
feet.
That is a Linksys BEFW11S4 with a high gain antenna kit. It is mounted high
in the center of the building and has an unimpeded path to the laptops.
In a normal office or home, 50-125 feet is about all you should reasonably
expect.
It really depends on how many walls/floors/doors are between and what they
are made of.
You can get a high gain antenna kit for most routers, and some external
adapters have an antenna.
The internal antenna varies by manufacturer, but isn't generally as good as
an external adapter with an antenna.
I have 2 wireless routers in my house.
The first is in my office with my cable modem.
The other is hardwired to the main router and is located at the other end of
the house.
I can access either with my laptop from almost anywhere in the house, but I
pick the one with the better signal strength.
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"Juan Donosa" <JuanDonosa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> is this one good
> [url]http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3519514?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG[/url]
> i cant seem to find the distance it works can anyone help?
>
> "Lang Murphy" wrote:
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>> "Juan Donosa" <JuanDonosa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:00355A29-630A-492C-8810-76DF704165C5@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > Im thinking of buying a laptop and i wanted to know any good wireless
>> > routers
>> > out there that i can use to access the internet some good cheap ones if
>> > possible, that i can connect to my home computer and use it to
>> > wirelessly
>> > access the internet with my laptop.[/color]
>>
>>
>> Just to add my 2 cents... I'm using a Linksys WRT54G v4... I've been
>> using
>> it for a couple of years and it's been rock solid. Can't say the same for
>> the Netgear router it replaced when I returned the NG router after less
>> than
>> a week of dropped connections to my ISP. (T'was a heat issue... and there
>> were guys who were adding external fans to cool the router... way beyond
>> the
>> call, imho...)
>>
>> Lang
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