Wired: How to Cut the Cord
Monday, December 29th, 2003
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Living Digital is a pull-out supplement in the January 2003 issue of Wired that lists our collective editorial suggestions for setting up the broadband home of the future today. One suggestion of mine that didn’t make the final cut: If range rather than speed is your issue, buy the discontinued Linksys WSB24 Wireless-B Signal Booster and a Linksys 802.11b base, rather than the new 54G model. I use this setup to cover a 4-story, 21-unit loft building, plus the roof, plus half the block outside (I parked it in front of a 3rd-floor window). Why were the range boosters (essentially radio-wave amplifiers) discontinued? Because the FCC learned that people were hooking them up to base stations other than the Linksys 802.11b units for which they were designed and tested. Don’t fry your brain with microwaves - stick with a Linksys/Linksys pairing.
