{"id":221,"date":"2007-12-15T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/netgear-aerial-extension-dec2007\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T16:37:25","slug":"netgear-aerial-extension-dec2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/netgear-aerial-extension-dec2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Netgear Aerial extension (Dec\/2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We bought a Netgear<\/a> aerial extension on Ebay because upstairs doesn’t get a reliable signal. But… It looks ridiculous:<\/p>\n

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\"Photo<\/td>\n\"Photo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original Aerial<\/em><\/td>\nCustom Aerial<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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I measured the wireless signal strength on our two Squeezebox’s<\/a>, one is in the room next to the router, the other is upstairs:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/th>\nOriginal Aerial<\/th>\nCustom Aerial<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Downstairs signal strength:<\/th>\n81%-83%<\/td>\n76%-80%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upstairs signal strength:<\/th>\n44%-49%<\/td>\n56%-58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

So it seems to have a minor decrease in signal close by but a better range. Worth the ridiculous form factor? Probably Not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We bought a Netgear aerial extension on Ebay because upstairs doesn’t get a reliable signal. But… It looks ridiculous: Original Aerial Custom Aerial I measured the wireless signal strength on our two Squeezebox’s, one is in the room next to the router, the other is upstairs:   Original Aerial Custom Aerial Downstairs signal strength: 81%-83% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal","category-toy","tag-hardware"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}