Internet for everyone

Introduction

Hey fellas, its been a while since I wrote my last boring gibberish, just got back home from ultra fun H-O-L-I-D-A-Y in China booyah! I found that China is a very pleasant place to find a bargain in any sense you can imagine but in this section I will focusing on the electronic one. My Dad has been asking me like gazilion times to make the Internet available for everyone in my house however its like the combination of pure laziness(sorry dad) and limitation of budget and technology. But I vowed to myself and to My dad that I will try to find all the equipment needed to set up full blown wireless Internet system in my house.

Problem

Okay some of you might consider me as stupid or exaggerating things because everyone knows that wireless router is the only things I need. Well normally yeah, but my house is stupidly maze like, really thick wall and wooden door. As the result of that, event the fastest furthest wireless router I recently just bought the Buffalo Wireless N (Nfiniti High Power) can only reach my room which is only one room away from the server room.

Buffalo Nfiniti

Solution

Then came out one possible solution. " I need a repeater" I said. Little description about repeater: " A repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it at a higher level/ power or onto the other side of an obstruction so that the signal can cover longer distances.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeater)" in a simple manner, repeater is a wireless range extender in this sense to expand the range of the wireless Internet router I had. Moving from there I found two repeater that was being recommended by the networking store here in China. One is linksys Wre 54 G the other is Asus WL - 330ge. Since I don't know which one is better I decided to bought two, one of each.

Installation

WL-330ge

Asus WL- 330ge

After went back home to Jakarta, I installed both of them in two different section of my house. The WL -330ge from Asus is somehow more complicated to installed due to the fact that this model actually do have several other features such as router, access point and repeater itself. With that I need to set up the device by log in into the root system and choose the repeater option then input all the necessary credentials to allow the device to communicate with my installed wireless router. The range is somehow oh-kay but should be better. I reckon the Asus model traded range for portability as the dimension is really small and can be move around with ease.

Wre 54 G

Linksys WRe 54 g

This model from Linksys is pure repeater model. That means this model only have one single function, repeater (D'OH). The lack of feature from this model doesn't necessarily mean that its bad, in a matter of fact this repeater model perform adequately well. The installation was really really simple just plug the power cord, wait for 5 seconds and voila it works!!. The range is somehow farther compare to the Asus one because of the external antena that the model provides.

Conclusion

Finally after the installation of this two devices, my house is somehow covered by the range of wireless Internet setup my dad's dreaming of. No major decline in the speed as well although my router is a wireless N model and all two repeaters I installed are still on the old G model. For those of you who wants to extend their wireless coverage you can use either repeater model I stated, but if you want more range I recommend Linksys as it provide a further range. But if you want fully features model or want to set up some hotspot you should use the Asus. Cheers fellas! -R-

PS: Sorry for the bad images quality (-_-)