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Good Wireless setup for 3 storey house ?

  • 14-08-2005 8:43pm
    #1
    Quigs Snr
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    I currently have a software access point that came as part of my Asus mobo. The PC its on is located in my ground floor in a room with 4 concrete walls and a concrete ceiling. I have esat broadband.

    I am considering getting NTL broadband, this will mean that I will be getting it in through my cable point. I have one of these in my living room (first floor) and another in my bedroom (second floor).

    What I want is to get a wireless setup that will git every room in the house. Currently I can get a useable wireless connection in most of the bottom floor, and some of the second floor (the parts nearest to where the PC with the software ap is downstairs). In the top floor I can detect a wireless network with a low signal which can't so much as open a web page.

    What do I need to achieve what I am looking for ? I presume a good dedicated AP on the middle floor hooked to my cable midem perhaps ? Maybe a booster of some sort, and some better transmitting antenna or something. Bit of a noob here so any advice welcome (by the way, bottom floor of the house, stone walls and ceilings, top 2 floors, all plasterboard and timber frame.


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  • #2
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    A good dedicated AP on the ground floor would do the job just fine.
    Get a nice Linksys with a strong radio.
    Perhaps one which has 2 independant antenae connectors. Put a 200 degree sector antena lying flat pointing upwards, and leave the standard omni in use.
    Or, if youre on a budget, try rotating the AP/antena to about 45 degrees on its side, and place some tinfoil-wrapped cardboard underneath it, to give you some constructive interference and signal focus. TBH, if you can recieve your beacon frames upstairs, you are almost there. If you can get about 27% signal, it will be stable.


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