This weekend was only the second time I've left home with my laptop
which has built-in wireless network support. On the first trip I
encountered some minor problems with weak signals at one hotel I was
staying at but nothing that kept me off the air. This past weekend I
was staying at a hotel in a room which was at the farthest point you
could be from the hotel's access point for the floor I was on. The
signal was so weak I couldn't get an IP address to get started so I was
without internet support for the entire weekend.
That started me thinking about the round-the-country trip I'm planning
for early fall. If I'm gone for 4-6 weeks in catch-as-catch-can hotels
I'll undoubtedly encounter some which have no access point at all but
also some where I'm simply too far away for a strong, clean signal.
My question is how to resolve the weak signal problem. Using a built-in
WO-FI adapter as is in my Dell laptop I don't see how to add a signal
boosting antenna. Therefore, it would seem that what's needed is a
signal boosting, short distance re-transmitter or else a separate
receiver/modem with ethernet output to go around the built-in WI-FI
card. But this stuff is mostly a mystery to me and maybe there's some
other magical way to boost and recover the signal.
Advice?
Thanks,
Chuck Norcutt
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