Question 1

My Neighbors have wi if if I go out to the wall in front of there house I can use there's. Will this device bring wifi across the street to my house?

Accepted Answer

Sure thing. You will see a great improvement in performance and be able to rebroadcast that connection into your house through your own router or wires.

If your neighbor has a 5ghz connection available to utilize, use the more recent 5ghz model.

Properly placed links like these can connect you to WiFi hotspots thousands of meters away.

But, if your neighbor makes their network password protected and you connect based on pre-exsisting authentication you are breaking the law - until then, all non-encrypted traffic is fair use regardless of the owner of the broadcast equipment ( USA )

Also - if you are not getting a signal strength of 65% or more... be a kind gentle person... dont use their network - wireless networks use extra bandwidth to serve bad connections at the expense of others who may have good connections.

Question 2

Can I use the product without using AC power?

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Yes and no.... This product powers over Ethernet, therefore no, you wont have to have AC power where its mounted because the power travels through your cable.  But at your router,you must have a short patch cable that travels to their power over ethernet box, which is connected with a 12v power supply, Then the other cable you want to run up to 100m of cat5 or cat6 will power the unit.

On a side note..... Dont forget to purchase your cable as it is not included.  Make sure that it is a solid copper core and not stranded as it will lose quality over several feet.  Any other questions feel free to ask.

Question 3

I've tried for about 4 hours to use one of these as an access point, as an extension to my existing router.  I have done an installation for a motel with one wifi router (linksys) and I am trying to plug in this device (after setting it all up) into my linksys router.  It just does not want to work.  I was able to get into the setup and set everything up the way it should be (use as AP) and I then unplug everything, connect this to my router, and then boot everything up.

I can see the AP because I set it to broadcast but I am not able to connect to it.  I tried turning off WEP and after I try connecting to it, it says "windows was unable to connect".  WHY~!?!!??

The only reason I can think of is that it can only be used with TWO and to wirelessly bridge two networks together.  IS THAT RIGHT?!?!?

Frustrated.  Thanks in advanced for any answers!

Accepted Answer

I can only speak on how I set mine up & used it.  I used mine as a bridge/repeater.  I had an existing AP that was not strong enough to make the shot from my neighbors house, through the trees & up the hill to my house.  Basically it just boosted the signal of my existing AP enough to allow my wifi devices to connect to it.
As far as using it as an AP in and of itself, I am not quite sure the best way to configure.  From what I remember there were at least 2 different ways to configure it as an AP.
Are u using the DHCP server on ur linksys or on the AP?  
I dont really understand what you are trying to do.  Is it for a hotel to cover wifi devices to connect back to a wireless linksys router?  Are you trying to link two routers together via a wireless shot between 2 of these in AP mode or 1 of these and another AP?
If you could give me a bit more detail about what exactly you are trying to do, I will see if I can help u figure it out.

Question 4

How well does this device transmit through trees and building?

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Not sure about a building but mine is 500' away through woods and it works fine.

Question 5

I have a lot of walls in my house and the house is double storey and the house is about 40m long by 20 m wide will placing this device on top of roof give me full wifi throughout home?

Accepted Answer

I would put it within the attic.  Also there is a setting under WIRELESS - DISTANCE SETTING - that needs to be INDOOR.  This makes it not fire in an arc, and instead have a radius all around the device.  If you still have trouble, manually change the channels and make sure the device is set to 19db power output.  As a last resort, enable high power mode.  I do worry a bit about running high power mode indoors, but it may be the only option.

Question 6

what wireless routers will this access point work with?

Accepted Answer

It works with any. The only problem I had with it is for some reason when connected to the AP, I could not see my other devices on my network which were wired or connected wireless even though I did not setup an isolated network on the device. I did all I could but still had problems

Question 7

Do you get close to the same range of "15km" if this device is used as an AP? I understand that WiFi cards generally have weaker transmitting power, so there will be some limitations.

Accepted Answer

No.  The 15 km is for transmitting from one of these devices to another (building to building, or deployment from the WAN to a remote location) and requires both to be aligned pointing to each other with line of sight.  Range for just wireless AP I have about 1 mi line of sight, but I am in a subdivision so LoS is hard to maintain.

Question 8

Can I use this device to transmit my WIFI to multiple sites in a campground over 1 km where my end users are staying in travel trailors among some trees? I have a D-Link Router as my main AP.

Some of my users have WR700N setup as Repeater in their travel trailors, most just try to connect using their computers WiFi.

Accepted Answer

Not quite sure what your trying to do but these can act as stand alone Access Points or Repeat the signal of an existing Access Point.  They do have very good range.  Remember that each one of these units require power weather it be locally or thru POE.  Not sure what the distance limitation for the POE is though.  I hope this helps. When we set ours up we got a 5 Static up package from our local cable company and I assigned each Access Point its own Static IP address and used it to hand out the IP addresses that way no router was needed.

Pat

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