We live in very rural area &amp; share signal w/neighbor several acres away. Router, etc., is at his house. Will this help our signal strength?
1953990
I stay at a RV park in lower Alabama and my spot is several hundred yards from the antenna ath the club house. I could only get 1 bar and sometimes 2 but after I installed the Alpha I get 4 to 5 bars consistently and have good access to the internet. There a lot of campers in the park and when they are all on it slows down but I still have good access. I also tried a much more expensive one and got less signal.
1102444
The signal is not encrypted. Your neighbor would need the same receiver in range and on the same channel.
1258395
Quite close yes. But you can get a signal booster dirt cheap. This will extend the wifi signal significantly.
648443
it will improve if configured correctly. My modem and the repeater shared the same home web address so it was awkward to configure following directions but it seems to be working now that I added it to my trendnet wi-fi routers page.
200547
I say yes under the following scenario. If at the closest point to your neighbors house you are getting 40/50 signal strength chances are pretty good you can extend the signal much farther into yours. While true the initial set-up needs to be near 100 signal strength, however after that the unit can be moved to optimize the range of the signal. Netgear has a really great app called the Netgear Genie exactly for that purpose. Any yes, your neighbor will need to let you come over to set the unit up. Good Luck.
1195962
No it would not work due to the fact that each house has its own breaker, and essentially its own "closed" circuit. Because they are two separate circuits and systems they cannot interact with eachother using this. If you wanted to allow your neighbor to use your internet, then I suggest picking up a few routers, placing one in your house at the closest point to his, and one in his at the closest point to yours. After that set the one in his house as a repeater for the wifi frequency from yours, and his house should be covered for the most part.
1026469
It will probably help with your issue. The Netgear N900 Dual Band Wi-Fi picks up signals as far away as my neighbors houses. With other receivers I only can see my own Wi-Fi. I would recommend this product.
2227538
I wouldn't know as I have only one of them, but I assume that there would be no conflict. The device simply locks onto the nearest wifi signal and amplifies it accordingly. That's its sole purpose, and I don't imagine there would be any issue with transmission or reception of such a signal, since it uses the electrical wiring in your home to connect to the router, but again, I only have one device, so I can't say with any real certainty what the effects are.
1664220
I don't know exactly, but my neighbor picks up a full signal from my router (I had him check). This router was recommended to me by the IT guy at my place of employment. I have been extremely happy with it.
2215889
I have a set sending a signal to another house and from that house I send it to 2 other houses using another 2 sets. I have a network hub that they are all plugged into that is also a wireless access point. So, I think what you are trying to do shooting over a hill will work. BTW, I have a total of 5 of these throughout my network sharing 1 internet connection between 6 houses.
648447
It all depends on how far it is from the wifi router that is connected to the internet. If you can place the repeater somewhere around midway between your computer and the router, that would probably give you the best odds of good reception. I'm assuming the router is at your neighbors house? If you can position the router at their house as close as possible to your house, but still within a range that gives them adequate reception, then placing the repeater midway between the router and your computer would increase the quality of the signal you recieve.
2253592
don't know, but it did not help my signal. I then bought the Netgear range extender and it works great!
40628
A repeater such as this would work, but if you do not require a repeater to be mounted outside, you're may be overpaying. Thirty feet is not a great distance for a wifi router. Perhaps locating the router higher in your brothers house would be helpful in increasing the signal strength to yours. This Hawking exterior repeater is very good, but is meant to be used outdoors and you pay for that feature.
648446
If the wireless reception from your neighbor's house is strong enough it will work, if not it will continually drop out and loose sync. This device might be hard to configure in this situation and tech support is miserable. It gave me a strong signal but never let my devices connect to the internet. Sent it back. I purchased a Linksys RE1000, hooked it to the computer and the CD did the rest. Excellant quality signal.
90436
Don't think so...but the antenna that comes with the device picks up the router signal quite well, 50 feet away and the signal is still good.
95159
I live in an 1800 square foot 3-bedroom ranch. My wireless router sits at one far corner of the house and my ROKU device sits at the opposite end of the house. I placed the Cisco repeater about midway in the house, near the ceiling. My ROKU went from a weak signal to "Good". I've had no problems with signal strength anywhere within the house. One warning. This device is a bear to configure. I have to use an old Windows XP pc to configure it. The included disc won't work on a Windows 8 pc. As long as I don't change my home network password, all is well. After a power outage or shutdown, I always reboot in this order; my modem router, then the repeater, and then any devices I want to use. I'm glad I bought it. I live in an 1800 square foot 3-bedroom ranch. My wireless router sits at one far corner of the house and my ROKU device sits at the opposite end of the house. I placed the Cisco repeater about midway in the house, near the ceiling. My ROKU went from a weak signal to "Good". I've had no problems with signal strength anywhere within the house. One warning. This device is a bear to configure. I have to use an old Windows XP pc to configure it. The included disc won't work on a Windows 8 pc. As long as I don't change my home network password, all is well. After a power outage or... » Read More I live in an 1800 square foot 3-bedroom ranch. My wireless router sits at one far corner of the house and my ROKU device sits at the opposite end of the house. I placed the Cisco repeater about midway in the house, near the ceiling. My ROKU went from a weak signal to "Good". I've had no problems with signal strength anywhere within the house. One warning. This device is a bear to configure. I have to use an old Windows XP pc to configure it. The included disc won't work on a Windows 8 pc. As long as I don't change my home network password, all is well. After a power outage or shutdown, I always reboot in this order; my modem router, then the repeater, and then any devices I want to use. I'm glad I bought it. « Show Less
501529
Yeah I agree with Danny, but with some creative engineering you can still boost the signal distance. The only way to boost the signal of something like this would be to utilize the interrupt pin and have it trigger from a read on the external antenna, Which would actually be pretty interesting to code and build. Hope this helps!