Re: [PLUG] Home Networking Question

[Timothy Lee Young <youtim73@netaxs.com>]

Hey Craig, you make a lot of sense, however,

my client actually would like the ability to use the wireless laptop at
her friend's house, connected directy at the rear of her house, and she'd
like to use the laptop up on the roofdeck (this summer, of course!) of
either the two houses.

so far, we've got up to about 75ft. range, then it cuts out; she has her
router at the front side of her house, and i've recommended for her to
move the router/ap to the rear side of her house, so we may have a chance
yet of accomplishing her wish; i could guess that we still may need a
signal booster or external antenna tho.

thanks for the links, thats interesting reading!

tim



On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Craig Brennan wrote:

> 
> You actually want that weak signal outside the house.  I worked at a tech school that taught networking and programming that had a wireless network and a crappy administrator who basically set the range on the NAP's to the maximum.  Anybody w/ a wireless card could pull up to w/i 1 mile of the school and get free net access and hog bandwidth.
> Craig Brennan
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> http://caffeinedout.com/craig/rs.html
>  Timothy Lee Young <youtim73@netaxs.com> wrote:Actually I just completed an installation of a Linksys Wireless-G router
> in a 3-story Rittenhouse Square residence, and it works completely
> satisfactory at all inner locations on any floor. The router is located
> on the second floor; the only thing is that there seems to be some
> difficulty with the signal on the outside of the brick house; nothin' that
> a better position or stronger antenna can't fix though.
> 
> Just thought I'd throw in another topic-related exprience.
> 
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