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something like this may be way beyond your needs and perhaps means. It's a broadband extender. http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-outdoor-bridging-eoc-1650.htm I have a slightly more expensive version to broadcast wifi to a holiday cottage the otherside of a yard. To get a signal to the device I use devolo/solwise "homeplugs". I can run the wire for the extender through a ventilator over the window, but drilling a hole as for TV aerial, would do it. Looking at this device it would seem to have the advantage of being easily movable, which combined with the wifi over electricity mains would be easy to do. Depending on how often you want outside wifi you could maybe buy a homeplug wifi access point, attach it to an extension lead and run that out of the window whenever needed. If the conservatory is on the same ring main then doing an extension with a homeplug from the router to one in the outbuilding might work, though it would be useful to be able to test this first before spending money. Simon On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 18:19 +0100, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > I've uploaded a (rough) plan of my house with the placement of the > router shown to my webspace: > > http://www.kaotic.co.uk/house_layout.jpg > > Essentially I live in a brick-built dormer bungalow with cavity wall > insulation in the outer walls. I'm in a wheelchair so my bedroom is > downstairs next to my bathroom at the front of the house. The problem > is that in my bedroom (surprise!) I get excellent signal strength. > However by the time I take my laptop out the back garden (outside the > conservatory roughly 30-40 feet or so in a straight line) I get very > weak strength to the point the laptop can't resolve an IP off the > router's DHCP server. Previously I had a laptop with a Netgear PCMCIA > card which worked very well with a Netgear FWG114P router at the same > distance - obvious really as they were the same manufacturer. > > The current hardware is an Edimax BR6215SRg router and both laptops in > use have built-in wireless cards. > > The wall the router is shown against has a wardrobe, and I'm wondering > if an external aerial on top of the wardrobe would extend the range > enough to give me a decent signal. > > Any advice gratefully received :) > > Kind regards, > > Julian > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html