Doug Crompton on Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:16:09 -0500 |
A wireless router should work between 3 stories especially if you put in on the second floor. You can also put higher gain antennas on them. The antennas are BNC or TNC mounted. Hygain makes a couple of models of vetical antennas, one has a 10DBi gain. They are made for outside mounting but could just as easily be used indoors. I am sure there are other companies that make similiar products. Interference is always a problem either from other wireless products or things like microwave ovens. I have a 2.4Ghz portable phone and I cannot use it with 10 feet of my microwave oven when it is in use. The base is on the second floor on the other end of the house. I am sure if it were in the same or next room it would be OK. So positioning is important. If it is a row home you may not have much control over your neighbors microwave or other wirless products that could be just on the other side of a common wall. Most wireless products allow either manual or automatic selection of channels to help eliminate interference problems. Doug **************************** * Doug Crompton * * Richboro, PA 18954 * * 215-431-6307 * * * * doug@crompton.com * * wa3dsp@wa3dsp.ampr.org * * http://www.crompton.com * **************************** _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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