Help with Wireless Network in New Home

You could use a 'dish' from Hawking Technology. It has some impressive specifications in terms of RX gain.

Hawking Technologies

 

Best idea is to buy a longer Ethernet Cable, move the Wireless Access Point towards the middle of the house where it has to traverse through the fewest walls in the house. Beyond that, most routers that home users have (linksys) have antenna/range extenders, these are just longer antennas that attach to the wap/router and boost the signal somewhat. Hope this helps somewhat.

 

The easiest way by far is to do what nKrypted1 suggested. The hawking antenna works very well, too. If you just want a router that will cover your entire house, I would suggest the Netgear MIMO RangeMAX router. I use one personally and it covers all 4 floors of my house. You can find it for around $80-$100 at best buy or circuit city.

You said that you were going to get satellite soon...Verizon has EvDO (wireless broadband) available in your area. i would take a look at that along with satellite. Good luck.

 

Hands down, do the EV-DO over satellite, I've been down that road, you'll pay more for satellite, it'll be slower, and there will be even bigger issues vs. installing a cellular card and paying the monthly connection.

 

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Avoid Satellite for internet like the plague. To anyone who has had it before, all you have to say to bring back the pain is 'FAP Bucket.'

 

Heh I've been FAP'd more times that I care to recall, for the record FAP stands for Fair Access Policy, HughesNet and Starband both have limits to how much you can download over set time, I upgraded to the business version of Hughesnet (Direcway at the time) to get up to 120Mb in 6 hours. I'd be willing to say that chances are that the amounts are a bit different now, but it's still a reality with satellite...

 

I used a Satellite internet connection a few months ago when I travelled into no-mans land and, albeit it being the ONLY option where I was, it was horrible and I could not stand it. I would rather have used my 1x DUN than this crap, lol.

 

Yeah the latency is usually up around 1 second, so even with throughput being there the latency makes it seem extremely slow.

 

Then add in the IP NAT'ing and crazy VLAN's that happen at each gateway (terrestrial node, satellite routes, then end user) and you have no way of using a VPN in most cases.