| Paul on Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:09:09 -0500 |
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I'm amazed by the range of your wireless system. What is your basement like? Carpeting? Finished walls? Is the router below ground level? Being in an apartment, using a wireless router and a PCI card, I find that my signal strength is either highly attenuated or very weak to begin with. I tend to think the problem is caused by having the PCI card's antenna behind the PC and next to a wall, blocking the line-of-sight and the Fresnel zone with metal, furniture, and a wall. My cantenna solves the signal strength problem, partly by raising the antenna to clear obstacles and by focusing the signal. I've heard that apartments are difficult environments for wireless. It seems to be true. Anyone else have problems in an apartment?
As for using a wireless setup over 3 floors -- it works fine. I live in a big old victorian row house in West Phila (12 foot ceilings). I have an original Apple graphite Airport Base Station sitting in my basement. My son uses the iBook throughout the house, and camps out with it in his room on the third floor, at the opposite end of the house from the Base Station. Never had any problems. It also covers the backyard nicely. (And I can use it at my neighbors on either side as well.) I also have a wireless connected flat-panel iMac on the first floor in the dining room. I actually have a second, pre-wireless connection to the third floor. It's an ethernet over fibre link that I threw out the window and pulled in through the door. It happens to be so old that the bloody media converters cost almost as much as the iMac!!! _________________________________________________________________________ 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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