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May 24, 2005
Cantenna
Some friends moved into our neighborhood a few weeks ago. They live three houses down the street from us. I thought it would be a cool project to extend our wireless network to their house, and after talking it over, we decided to try it.
I knew extending our wireless network to a house 100 feet away was possible, but I was not sure what equipment we would need. I did some research and found the Cantenna. From reviews I found, I knew it should easily be able to focus the wireless signal and transmit it to the house. I also knew I wanted to use a Linksys WRT54G with custom Sveasoft firmware. Sveasoft firmware allows you to boost the signal strength on the router, something you cannot do with the factory firmware. Would it work? Would we need more equipment, like a router on the other end? Only one way to find out.
Once I had everything setup on the router, we did a test from our second story porch. It worked perfectly. I plan on moving the router and cantenna inside our garage, which has a window with clear line of sight to the house. For now though, here is a shot of the setup on our porch.
Posted by Phil at May 24, 2005 09:15 PM
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