Luxul's Pro-WAV 100 booster promises to whip your home WiFi into shape
By Paul Miller 
posted Sep 3rd 2008 10:33AM
posted Sep 3rd 2008 10:33AM
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posted Sep 3rd 2008 10:33AM
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Sounds too good to be true. I bet it doesn't work that effectively though...
i have 2k sq ft home, my wifi router is on one side of the house, my lot is 9k sq ft, i have coverage all around my house/lot plus some of my neighbors use my wifi as well (share the love), so just get bigger antennas for your router and you should be "OK"
"We're pretty sure they made that second one up in the press release just to sound fancy,"
Engadget is critical of a product not made by Apple? Who would have thought. Maybe if it was called the iPro-WAV 100 you would have thought it was the greatest thing ever...
In related news, retards who bring Apple into non-Apple topics generate a feedback loop of stupid.
i assume a ground loop of stupid would just destroy the earth
Ever since I switched to a Buffalo router with a built in amplifier, I haven't had any problems with my home wi-fi.
Will it whip my neighbor's wi-fi connection into shape? It looks like I need to run some power up to the attic...
Nice, but who wants that ugly thing on their ceiling?
people who aren't queer eye for straight guy about their ceiling? people who aren't that put off by having a smoke detector?
@konshuss
wow seriously, who looks at the roof all day.
@v3xx
Apparently, classicX does.
Man the guys at Engadget must have big houses... My place is a good size (3 floors) and my linksys/cisco router covers the whole place plus the garage with no issues; and the router is in the basement.
Now what they need is to add a smoke detector to it and let it plug in to where a current smoke detector is to replace it. Wouldn't need to run power. They could even attach a light to it. And have it replace a ceiling light.
Do people have smoke detectors on mains power? Everyone I know has ones that use 9v batteries. :-/
yes.
http://www.detectorsandalarms.com/wire-intype-2.aspx
If it is cheap enough I wouldn't mind owning one. Sure the house is fully covered with no problems but I live next door (literally with no space in between) to my Uni which doesn't have wifi. It would be great if it could penetrate all those walls so I can study in the library without having to run home or use the dirty slow uni computers while researching.
Get an amplified Buffalo router and put a fat antenna on it. I use my wifi a few hundred meters away through two buildings no problem. Total cost, about $150 USD.
Assuming you're using a router with a removable antenna, Use a "Can-tenna". ThinkGeek sells them or you could make your own.
These have been available for nearly 6 months. I just installed the Pro-Wav 200 in a commercial environment and it works fairly well, but not well enough for the price (considering it is just an amp and and antenna, NO router or AP)
http://www.wirelessnetworkproducts.com/index.asp?PageAction=PRODSEARCH&txtSearch=pro-wav&btnSearch=GO&Page=1
You guys realize that 10000 square feet is only a circle of with a radius of 57 feet. My wireless router is about 40 feet from my computer as it is.
Yep. Depressing. Isn't it? It's more like 56.4 feet radius but who's counting? (well , other than me :P )
Luxul's AMP's are very powerful, but with out an AP or Bridge... these will be highly unstable if not unusable. I'm sure they would be fine for browsing the internet, but watching video's will cause you get caught in constant buffering modes or get dropped connections and then have to re-authenticate to your network. If you are wanting to increase your coverage in your home network, their AMP's and Antenna's are great (but expensive) and you can connect them to any access point that has removable antenna's. That is, provided you buy the correct cable connectors for your access point. We used to use Luxul and Renasis AMP's for WiFi installations in hotels, when I used to work for LodgeNet StayOnline (http://www.stayonline.net/). If you have a spare AP or Bridge that you wanna put in there, you will definitely see a difference. If not then you'll probably get really bad signal cross talk.
Haha, I'm running IT for a conference in a hotel that has Lodgenet. The WiFi is crap (then again, it is free wifi, so everyone and their cousin is on it), and the hotel has NO WIRED CONNECTIONS! So... instead of 15 laptops and 3 printers (two 4250s and a WCP 65) all networked together, I've got 1 laptop connected to 1 4250, and I'm playing wack-a-mole trying to keep the laptops from disconnecting from the hotel wifi. My users are not happy.
So, anyway, how 'bout dem Gophers?
Can I use this to more easily steal my neighbor's wifi? He was pissed after I uploaded DD-WRT firmware and boosted his antenna power so I could get a better signal.
Circular polarization is nothing new, and it certainly isn't made up. It just isn't used very often because the antennas are difficult to design and manufacture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarization
Most people here would probably be better served by a standalone Luxul amplifier, which takes whatever your AP puts out and amplifies it to the 1 watt legal limit. Considering most APs put out 100-200mW at most, this is a huge increase in power.
now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
...Smells like..... CANCER!
citation needed
How can anyone "promise" a range increase? Aren't all signals subject to interference? What if I live under electrical cables, next to a power plant, and between an airport and radio station and the device is in a shielded server room while I'm trying to use WiFi in the kitchen. Can this thing still give me a promised 400% or more as promised? Then again if I had that much RF bombardment I think WiFi range is the least of my problems.