Wireless solutions..

Hey folks,
I've spent most of today researching different routers, access points and
bridges and I'm still unsure of how things are going to work so I will
make a post here.

Situation is we currently have wires in the house which need to be gotten
rid of - the original idea was to route the wires and I have routes
planned out but it involves crawling in very small spaces, moving
furniture and ripping up carpet/floorboards. Wireless it is then :0)

The current ADSL router/switch are in the hall downstairs. I need to get
connectivity to two rooms downstairs, a room on the floor above and a
room in the attic (this is the important one as it is where my stuff
is..). So basically it needs to go up two floors.
There is no direct line of sight however there isn't a great deal in the
way.

Current options

1) Keep current setup and buy an access point (Thinking of the Linksys
WET11)

2) Replace the current setup with a combi ADSL
modem/router/wireless/switch

3) Look into LAN over Powerline technologies but they seem very expensive
and are not of benefit to laptops

There seems to be something wrong with everything that I find - be it the
Netgear crashing with large file transfers, the 802.11G Linksys with crap
range

Budget is another issue, looking at ~ £100 for the access equipment
(obviously extra for the cards).

Anyone got any pearls of wisdom they can send my way?

--
Colin
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"cw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hey folks,
> I've spent most of today researching different routers, access points and
> bridges and I'm still unsure of how things are going to work so I will
> make a post here.
>
> Situation is we currently have wires in the house which need to be gotten
> rid of - the original idea was to route the wires and I have routes
> planned out but it involves crawling in very small spaces, moving
> furniture and ripping up carpet/floorboards. Wireless it is then :0)
>
> The current ADSL router/switch are in the hall downstairs. I need to get
> connectivity to two rooms downstairs, a room on the floor above and a
> room in the attic (this is the important one as it is where my stuff
> is..). So basically it needs to go up two floors.
> There is no direct line of sight however there isn't a great deal in the
> way.
>
> Current options
>
> 1) Keep current setup and buy an access point (Thinking of the Linksys
> WET11)
>
> 2) Replace the current setup with a combi ADSL
> modem/router/wireless/switch
>
> 3) Look into LAN over Powerline technologies but they seem very expensive
> and are not of benefit to laptops
>
> There seems to be something wrong with everything that I find - be it the
> Netgear crashing with large file transfers, the 802.11G Linksys with crap
> range
>
> Budget is another issue, looking at ~ £100 for the access equipment
> (obviously extra for the cards).
>
> Anyone got any pearls of wisdom they can send my way?
>
> --
> Colin
> *Drop DEAD from the email address to reply*

The WET11 is a workgroup bridge, not an AP so that won't do you much good
unless you want to use wired cards in your remote clients and run a bunch of
WET11's in Ad Hoc mode, or point to multipoint bridge them all.
I'd buy an actual AP so you can move it around a little easier than an
AP/router combo and play around with your placement for better coverage.
Not sure what you mean by the poor coverage. Most of the soho AP gear will
provide similar coverage cell results. You can sometimes overcome this with
brute force, either with a booster or more directed pattern through gain of
your antenna.

You would get better coverage by placing your AP in the attic.
I get workable connection between two houses 70m apart using Draytek Vigor
2200We.
Regards,
Martin

"Kevin Webb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> The WET11 is a workgroup bridge, not an AP so that won't do you much
> good unless you want to use wired cards in your remote clients and run
> a bunch of WET11's in Ad Hoc mode, or point to multipoint bridge them
> all. I'd buy an actual AP so you can move it around a little easier
> than an AP/router combo and play around with your placement for better
> coverage. Not sure what you mean by the poor coverage. Most of the
> soho AP gear will provide similar coverage cell results. You can
> sometimes overcome this with brute force, either with a booster or
> more directed pattern through gain of your antenna.

I did some reading and as far as I was aware you could put a WET11 in Ad
Hoc mode and use it to share the connection with multiple computers (easy
link is adslguide.org.uk)
I don't have a great deal of places I can put the Wireless point, its
pretty much stuck on the same shelves as the adsl router so
separate/combo isn't really an issue.

As far as coverage, I've been googling for reviews and some of the access
points have much worse signal than others. Of course some of the major
factors are things like internal/external antena. There isn't much budget
to play with otherwise I'd just shell out for something simpler

--
Colin
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