Re: [PLUG] Home Networking Questions/Solutions

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

> There isn't enough space for a wireless router in the electric panel and I
> would have nowhere to put the antenna--at least, nowhere that I'd get a good
> signal to the third floor of the house.


Rather than worrying about using the wireless router where your modem 
is, why not put the wireless router where another computer is, where 
hopefully you'll have better signal strength on the 3rd floor.  You 
apparently already have one router, and it's normally possible to 
daisychain routers, so just unplug the ethernet cable feeding a 2nd or 
third computer, plug that cable in as the input to the wireless router 
and then connect the formerly plugged in computer with a short jumper to 
 one of the available extra ethernet ports on the wireless router.

I also would be extremely remiss if I didn't point out that wireless 
protocols have extreme security flaws, so be sure to lock down all of 
your computers on the network.
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