In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a 802.11b repeater that's cheap and extends the
>> range of any manufacturer's access point? So far I only have found
>> expensive ones and manufacturer-specific ones. SNMP configurability
>
>What's the main AP type?
Good question. (-: Gigafast WF711-AP. Seems a nice little thing for
the price.
Having looked into it further, I am thinking that:
(a) It might make sense to just get more APs, look at how the cable
guy ran his coax around, and run CAT5 around with it. Then I can get
more simultaneous wireless bandwidth with little cost difference
between APs and repeaters.
(b) I should be getting more out of the WF711-AP. It's barely getting
out of the room it's in at the moment, though perhaps it would reach
more rooms through being in the cellar and talking through the floor.
I haven't experimented much with antenna orientation. The only "power
meter" I have is the Windows "signal strength" thing on laptop
computers, and I can try to set power on different channels on the AP
over SNMP via ap-config but whether that has any effect on the
WF711-AP (the setup utility that comes with it doesn't let you play
with channel gains), or if it does then which values are high and
which are low, is far from clear - experimentation so far gives pretty
random results.
It's probably clear that I'm new to this: I know about networking in
general, and electromagnetic propagation, but I don't concretely know
much about current 802.11b product offerings and what I should be
expecting from them. From reading this group for a bit, it's clear
that you guys know what you're doing. I just wish that the 2.4GHz
signals were more human-perceptible or that decent power meters were
cheaper.
-- Mark
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