On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:28:16 -0000, Dave Platt wrote:
Can you help me roughly CALCULATE how to increase the range of my home
Internet wireless WiFi setup from 150 feet to a shed 300 feet away?

Doubling the range requires 6 dB of additional gain from the antennas
at one end or the other.

Hi Dave,

First thank you for taking the time to help me and anyone who read this.
Second, I'm going to have to go slowly with you so I'll respond one by one.

Third, does your statement that 6 dB of gain equates to 2 times the range
mean that the "square root" of the power difference is my key to
calculating the range?

That is, is this range calculation from dB power roughly true (based on
what you said)?

6 dB = 10^(6/10) ~= 4X the power, where the square root of 4X equals a
doubling the range (assuming an omnidirectional antenna)?

Beverly