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Reach of a wireles network

Reach of a wireles network

Reach of a wireles network

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My parents want to connect my mum's PC on the 2nd floor to the internet, which my dad uses in his office in the basement. (only socket is located there!)

They live in a standard Danish brick house from 1932 with, to my knowledge, no concrete or metal grids between the floors.

The cheapest solution will be to pull a cable between the two places, but it involves about 15 feet (4-5 meters) on the outside wall. Could a standard indoor cable be used here ?

The easiest would be a wireles router and a USB or PCI interface plugged into my mum's PC.
But can a connection reach through two floors?

At work (also an old brick building from 1898 or so) I have trouble connecting to an access point 4 rooms away.
Another on the floor above is a little closer but on the other side of the building. The later gives a little better signal, however. We are talking about one-two respectively three on a signal scale that goes to five!

RE: Reach of a wireles network

I have a timber house in Sweden. I have put the D-link AirPlus Router as close to the ceiling as possible and then I have excellent connection on the floor above. But I don't have much signal strength in the attic. Which is the next floor.

Why not try? It is simple and the answer will be perfectly valid for your house. Our guesses will never come even close...

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org

RE: Reach of a wireles network

You could use repeaters if the signal strength isn't enough.

TTFN



RE: Reach of a wireles network

The antennas are normally/commonly oriented vertically for a roughly 'horizontal' 'connection'.
Have you tried, simply, rotating the boxes/antennas, so that antennas are horizontal? preferably parallel, unit to unit?
You could also try adding reflectors (watch distance re wavelength), positioned to reflect units signals towards each other.

Alternatively, what sort of speed?
You could possibly get away with 10kbps over an unused telephone line pair, if there is one available in the house wiring already?

Let us know how you solve it (and at what expense! ;) )

Steven C. Potter I.S.P., IEng, MIED
http://www.spottek.ca

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