RV Router

philh wrote:
It mostly makes sense, but I'm extremely tired right now.

I put a high gain antenna on my WRT54G that allowed me to sit out on the lake and use the house wifi with my laptop :) The range was phenomenal. Also experimented with a script that automatically searched for "open" wifi. I found a business almost 1/2 mile away that was open. Don't find that too often anymore.

I'll have to try it this weekend where our park model trailer is located. I'm a bit on the fringe of receiving a good signal. Only problem, they have two different broadcast names, and sometimes one works and sometimes the other works.

Anytime you scan and log into the park wifi with the WRT54G, it's hard wired to your laptop then? Why do you do that? Guess I better figure out how to turn off wifi on my new laptop!

Any particular reason for netgear, or will any modern router work? I had a freaking awesome ASUS at my B&M, that one day decided it had enough. Running off the AT&T modem/router now.

Your big high-gain antennas should help. But just the extra power of the router and being able to place it high is the big benefit. The TX power can be adjusted some with DD-WRT. The WiFi range of some laptops and most phones is poor.
I have seen the auto search talked about, but never tried that.
The Netgrear router is just a router, was on the shelf at Walmart at a price I was willing to spend. So anything you have laying around will work for that.
I made the Linksys GUI hard wire because sometimes it’s like an open network, no security if I’m connecting to an open network. This way no one can login and make changes even if they could get past user name and password. Not something you have to do, just something I did. I have also changed the router IP address. I do that as a matter of set up for any router. Not sure it matters, but doesn’t hurt.
I keep a “cheat sheet” with User name & password the IP addresses and directions in the trailer. I might not use them for months, and memory ain’t what it used to be.