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My Vista machine has never been too happy with USB devices, so I'm looking to put an antenna on the chimney aligned to our nearest Three cell and share that connection with a wireless router. This should also speed things up a little.
This is timely as we were considering a Freesat satellite dish (since we've lived here, ITV channels aren't always available as the signal strength isn't great, that's not much of a problem since there's rarely anything worth watching on them, but the picture glitches on all channels every time an owl lands on the aerial and takes off again)
I'd prefer to have the router somewhere accessible e.g. in my office room upstairs. I can see that Three have a "D100" wireless router which you plug the dongle into.
However I won't need the dongle as I'll have the antenna instead. I think. So was wondering how this is done - can you put the SIM card in the router? If not, am I looking at a different router which does let you plug the SIM card in to it, perhaps more flexibly because it would work with other networks (the D100 is for the Three network only, apparently)
I don't need ADSL/cable fallback, print server etc on the router or any other features. It does need to have a pretty good wireless range as the house is stone built and signals don't travel through it very well.
So looking to see if anyone have any router and/or antenna pairing recommendations; the nearest cell is 2.8km away, gives 3 bar strength with the dongle at the moment. I *think* it will get perfect line of sight to the cell if it's mounted high enough on the chimney.
I came across this, which is very functional, but more so than I need, I doubt I'll ever need an ADSL capability:
http://www.edimax.co.uk/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=267&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=78
I'm assuming that if I obtain the GPS co-ordinates of the cell (after verifying with Three, as I'm waiting on a local cell upgrade to faster speeds, so given there's more than one cell, I'd like to know which one(s) are being upgraded) am I right in thinking that the antenna needs a satellite installer (as opposed to a radio/TV aerial installer) with a GPS device (e.g. the same installer who puts the Freeview dish up)
So many questions! Thanks.
This is timely as we were considering a Freesat satellite dish (since we've lived here, ITV channels aren't always available as the signal strength isn't great, that's not much of a problem since there's rarely anything worth watching on them, but the picture glitches on all channels every time an owl lands on the aerial and takes off again)
I'd prefer to have the router somewhere accessible e.g. in my office room upstairs. I can see that Three have a "D100" wireless router which you plug the dongle into.
However I won't need the dongle as I'll have the antenna instead. I think. So was wondering how this is done - can you put the SIM card in the router? If not, am I looking at a different router which does let you plug the SIM card in to it, perhaps more flexibly because it would work with other networks (the D100 is for the Three network only, apparently)
I don't need ADSL/cable fallback, print server etc on the router or any other features. It does need to have a pretty good wireless range as the house is stone built and signals don't travel through it very well.
So looking to see if anyone have any router and/or antenna pairing recommendations; the nearest cell is 2.8km away, gives 3 bar strength with the dongle at the moment. I *think* it will get perfect line of sight to the cell if it's mounted high enough on the chimney.
I came across this, which is very functional, but more so than I need, I doubt I'll ever need an ADSL capability:
http://www.edimax.co.uk/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=267&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=78
I'm assuming that if I obtain the GPS co-ordinates of the cell (after verifying with Three, as I'm waiting on a local cell upgrade to faster speeds, so given there's more than one cell, I'd like to know which one(s) are being upgraded) am I right in thinking that the antenna needs a satellite installer (as opposed to a radio/TV aerial installer) with a GPS device (e.g. the same installer who puts the Freeview dish up)
So many questions! Thanks.