I want to extend the range of my wireless modem. Haveing read around i have come accross the following: Wireless repeaters Wireless bridges Wireless access points From what i can gather, i need a wireless repeater. Correct? My understanding is that: a wireless bridge enables a wired device to become wireless via the ethernet port. Similar to a wireless adapter but for ethernet and not usb/pcmcia. (This will therefore not help me) a wireless access point turns a wired network into a wireless one and needs to be connected up to the wired network via an ethernet cable. (This therefore wont help me) Which leaves repeaters, but these are quite fussy when it comes to connecting to wireless routers, i.e. brand A might not work with brand B. Am i correct in all this? Is there a piece of hardware that i havent come across yet? TIA.

Hello bohboh, Depending on the range you are after. Find the sites what tell you how to make your own reflectors, this can be done with cd's or tin foil and chicken wire. These tequniques can give you up to 200% better coverage (directional). Otherwise, get better antennae, up signal strength on ap/bridge/router, or as you say get another access point.

I don't use wireless network myself, but a repeater indeed pickes up a signal, boosts it so it can go on and sends it out again. In the wired network these are not used anymore because of the switches and all... So yes, repeaters make shure that the signal goes on... Or make shure that where you need it the most, your origin wireless device is placed. That is actually the easiest. Gender doesn't matter in the Computing world. Commom sence does. Don't forget that.

Wireless repeater is a wireless bridge. It is a way of extending a network wirelessly. You can do that or put in a cantenna [google that word] A access point WILL work for you and will give you 325feet of distance from the original point. If presently you only have a modem then you need to also get a wireless router. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.