Wireless network over 3 floors of my house

Hi - I work from an office in the roof of my house. I want to be able to
work on my laptop on the ground floor and be able to get internet access and
work with various databases (FoxPro, SQL Server, MySQL etc). My hope is
that a 802.11g Access Point + card in the laptop is what I require.

My concerns is that the distance between access point and laptop may mean
the signal will denigrate to an unworkable level. I reckon the straight
line distance is probably about 30-40m.

The house is 100 year old Edwardian terrace, while most floor joist are wood
there are large RSJ's between middle floor and loft.

Does anyone have any thought as to whether what I am trying to do is
workable?

I am thinking about the Buffalo Airstation G54 WAP + Buffalo card as it's
only £145 and reviews seem reasonable.

Thanks for your help

Andrew

"Andreww" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Hi - I work from an office in the roof of my house. I want to be able
> to work on my laptop on the ground floor and be able to get internet
> access and work with various databases (FoxPro, SQL Server, MySQL
> etc). My hope is that a 802.11g Access Point + card in the laptop is
> what I require.
>
> My concerns is that the distance between access point and laptop may
> mean the signal will denigrate to an unworkable level. I reckon the
> straight line distance is probably about 30-40m.
>
> The house is 100 year old Edwardian terrace, while most floor joist
> are wood there are large RSJ's between middle floor and loft.
>
> Does anyone have any thought as to whether what I am trying to do is
> workable?
>
> I am thinking about the Buffalo Airstation G54 WAP + Buffalo card as
> it's only £145 and reviews seem reasonable.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Andrew
>
>
>

Like anything else dealing with radio signals, the higher you can get the
transmitter/receiver the better the reception will be for a wide area.

Now some people don't like the Linksys products, but I have been using
all Linksys equipment wire/wireless router, modern and wireless network
card with no issues period for two years.

You may want to look at one of the Linksys wire/wireless routers, along
with the Linksys signal booster.

And on top of that, the router provides good protection in protecting SQL
Server, IIS, DB2, VS 2003.NET, etc, etc from being attacked. That along
with a host based packet filtering FW solution on the machine, because
someone determined enough can come past the router.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp

You got those vulnerable application, services and ports open, then
hopefully, you have *harden* the O/S. But If you have not then the link
will help as it talks about all the Win O/S's. The protection starts with
the O/S and everything else is secondary to the O/S.

http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/windows2000.php

You may want to look at the Wireless security part.

http://netsecurity.about.com/library.../aa022703a.htm

You shoud get a UPS like Belkin or others and plug modem, router or AP
and main computer into it. There is nothing like good clean from spikes,
brownouts and study power.

This is more than you asked for, but hopefully it will help

Duane
--
The protection of the machine is a process and not a given!

Duane - many thanks for such a speedy and complete reply... especially on a
Saturday evening (in the UK it's now 9pm!).

I shall read and digest.

Cheers

Andrew

"Duane Arnold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Andreww" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:zpfSa.172$(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > Hi - I work from an office in the roof of my house. I want to be able
> > to work on my laptop on the ground floor and be able to get internet
> > access and work with various databases (FoxPro, SQL Server, MySQL
> > etc). My hope is that a 802.11g Access Point + card in the laptop is
> > what I require.
> >
> > My concerns is that the distance between access point and laptop may
> > mean the signal will denigrate to an unworkable level. I reckon the
> > straight line distance is probably about 30-40m.
> >
> > The house is 100 year old Edwardian terrace, while most floor joist
> > are wood there are large RSJ's between middle floor and loft.
> >
> > Does anyone have any thought as to whether what I am trying to do is
> > workable?
> >
> > I am thinking about the Buffalo Airstation G54 WAP + Buffalo card as
> > it's only £145 and reviews seem reasonable.
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
>
> Like anything else dealing with radio signals, the higher you can get the
> transmitter/receiver the better the reception will be for a wide area.
>
> Now some people don't like the Linksys products, but I have been using
> all Linksys equipment wire/wireless router, modern and wireless network
> card with no issues period for two years.
>
> You may want to look at one of the Linksys wire/wireless routers, along
> with the Linksys signal booster.
>
> And on top of that, the router provides good protection in protecting SQL
> Server, IIS, DB2, VS 2003.NET, etc, etc from being attacked. That along
> with a host based packet filtering FW solution on the machine, because
> someone determined enough can come past the router.
>
> http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp
>
> You got those vulnerable application, services and ports open, then
> hopefully, you have *harden* the O/S. But If you have not then the link
> will help as it talks about all the Win O/S's. The protection starts with
> the O/S and everything else is secondary to the O/S.
>
> http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/windows2000.php
>
> You may want to look at the Wireless security part.
>
> http://netsecurity.about.com/library.../aa022703a.htm
>
> You shoud get a UPS like Belkin or others and plug modem, router or AP
> and main computer into it. There is nothing like good clean from spikes,
> brownouts and study power.
>
> This is more than you asked for, but hopefully it will help
>
> Duane
> --
> The protection of the machine is a process and not a given!

"Duane Arnold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Like anything else dealing with radio signals, the higher you can get the
> transmitter/receiver the better the reception will be for a wide area.

My observation has been that distance is more of a limiting factor than
height with wireless networking.

I have a Linkyss wireless router/access point with wireless signal booster
in a 4-level house including basement and attic. It would not cover the
bottom floors if I put the router/access point in the attic, but if I put it
at a location almost in the middle of the house then the network covers the
whole house.

--
Richard Kaplan
(E-Mail Removed)
www.flyimc.com

Richard - I was kind of thinking that I would have to put the acces point on
the midle floor.

Do you still get a good "signal" with the AP on the middle floor? Do you
know what speed?

Cheers

Andrew

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>
>
> "Duane Arnold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> > Like anything else dealing with radio signals, the higher you can get
the
> > transmitter/receiver the better the reception will be for a wide area.
>
> My observation has been that distance is more of a limiting factor than
> height with wireless networking.
>
> I have a Linkyss wireless router/access point with wireless signal booster
> in a 4-level house including basement and attic. It would not cover the
> bottom floors if I put the router/access point in the attic, but if I put
it
> at a location almost in the middle of the house then the network covers
the
> whole house.
>
> --
> Richard Kaplan
> (E-Mail Removed)
> www.flyimc.com
>
>