Boosted again...

Fired up the just received Wavelink AC 600 Wi-Fi repeater and getting full signal again 250 meters away at Mailbox Road.  My entrance camera is back in business.  As of today, these are still a great deal on Amazon while they are offering 39% off plus a $15 coupon.  87,91,67,0,B

UPDATE:  This unit has failed already - just like the previous unit.  Not sure what the issue is so I am returning this one for a full refund.  Perhaps there is a reason why they slashed the price so dramatically.  Going to try the Wavelink AC 1200 next.

another storm related issue...

My Wifi booster seems to have been adversely affected by one of the recent electrical storms.  It no longer "boosts" like it used to.  Did a little digging online and found an identical replacement for twenty bucks cheaper than the now defective one that I bought a year ago.  90,98,60,0,B

Broadening my horizons...

Field Lab internet making a 1,100-kilometer round trip from space. 

and getting bumped out 500 meters from the router.

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on being sensitive...

Dove back into the wifi repeater snafu again today.  Although the new Netgear repeater works well, I have been determined to get the 5 year old Linksys WRT54GL back to communicating with my wireless network because it can bump the signal out a lot farther.  Was finally able to log into it (with the username and password that UK Neil brillianly saved to a notepad file on my computer).  Going through all the settings in the firmware that Neil had installed, I only found one tiny tidbit amiss.  The network name I put in on the Linksys (5 years ago) was slightly different from what I set up on the new Big Bend Telephone router I now have.  My network name is the same but the old setup had some capital letters in it and my new setup is all lower case.  The name of the network is also called the SSID - short for service set identifier.  Turns out the SSID is case sensitive.  If you really want to know more about SSID - it is an alphanumeric character set that is a unique identifier attached to the header of packets sent over a wireless local-area network (WLAN).  The SSID, a component of IEEE802.11 WLAN architecture, acts as a password when a mobile device (or repeater in my case) tries to connect to the basic service set (BSS) - my Big Bend Telephone router.  I changed a few letters and the Linksys is back in business.
I feel a little smarter now....do you?  90,95,69,0,B

Netgear

Shelved the Linksys router/repeater for now and just got delivery of this wifi extender.  Took all of 5 minutes to set up and test and it worked like a charm with WPS on my Big Bend Telephone router and the wifi connection through my old netbook.  Easily boosted my signal out to the feed corner where Ben and Javier dine together.  Big tech win!  Also got the new tablet computer but still trying to figure out the Ustream app.  90,95,68,0,B

discovering wifi in the desert...

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free range wifi...

Guests went on their way today.  Had a great visit with the boys.  It will take a couple of days to get used to being alone out here.  This morning - IT Neil set me up with a hacked Linksys wireless router to act as a repeater for my wifi enabled DSL modem.  Now I have extended range and it can run off its' own solar charged battery system.  98,104,75,0,B