{"id":116,"date":"2004-08-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-08-04T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T09:30:00","slug":"wifi-links-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"WiFi Links and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m still playing around with my Airport Express (AEx) at home.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe signal strength LED blinks yellow (medium) most of the time, rather than glowing green as I’d prefer.
\nThe AEx is in the Den (our TV\/Stereo media room), down a floor and at the other end of the house from my G4 Mac in the office. The AEx has an internal antenna, so without cutting it open to hack on a bigger antenna, I’m pretty much stuck with leaving it alone. But I can increase its received signal strength by focusing the transmitted power into a narrower, more concentrated beam, rather than using the omni-directional pattern of the built-in G4 antenna.\n<\/p>\n

\nBasically this means I need to build or buy a tighter beam anternna (with a 2 foot long or so lead) and connect it to the antenna connector on the Airport Extreme card within the G4.\n<\/p>\n

\nRather than reinvent the wheel, its makes sense to look at what others have already done – there has been an evolution beyond the old Pringles “Cantenna” technology. And considering I’ve worked in CATV\/TVRO technology and around the edges of antenna tech before I gave it up and came to web development, I have some old N connectors and such stashed away from those old days (somewhere!).\n<\/p>\n

Here are some reference links for later use:<\/p>\n