RE: Advice on creating small net?

I hope for his sake that he owns the company.  If it was my company and
someone did that, it would be grounds for immediate termination, unless I
was made aware of it beforehand.

That being said, there are anntenas you can get from places like Hyperlink
for the access point which may/may not help with reception.....

Mike Strock
mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.myhomeoffice.org/ - New pictures of my kids here!

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Greetings-

Hoping the list can offer some advice or pointers to info for the
appropriate set-up for my friends situation. Apologies if I'm OT here...

My buddy just bought a house across the street from his workplace, a commute
of about 100 feet (lucky #^$*&#). He's hoping to use the DSL connection at
his office from his home via wireless connection. He almost has line of
sight, were it not for a good-sized leafy tree in his front yard between his
office window and living room window of his house. He picked up a Linksys
WRT54G, which on it's own is just able to get a weak signal to the front
window of his house, but if he moves his laptop anywhere but that front
window, (or if it rains/gets windy/etc.), he loses contact. He then picked
up a cantenna from the the folks at contenna.com, which seems to improve the
signal enough so that he gets a nice signal in his window, and a passable
signal in the rest of the front room, but not so much in the rest of the
house.

Sooo...I'm thinking he'll want to place a second AP for his front window, to
rebroadcast the signal throughout his house, but I'm not sure if A)the
WRT54G supports this sort of thing, and B)If it does, will any old AP do for
the second unit, or should it be a matching WRT54G? He has access to a Dell
TrueMobile 2300, which seems to support both bridging and repeater modes,
but I was unable to find a clearcut means to make the two speak to one
another. Also, while his immediate goal is to just be able to access the
web, check e-mail, etc., I suspect that he may eventually want to be able to
VPN into the Win2K network at his office, so support for that would be a
nice bonus.

Can folks on the list make any suggestions for the second access point, or
perhaps some other option (like a second cantenna?) to get him to the happy
surfing place? Advice on both hardware and setup is greatly appreciated.

TIA!
-Robert-

P.S. Not sure if it's a factor, but the office window closest to his house
is a few feet from the point were the electric/phone/etc cabling comes into
the building...would this cluster of wire potentially affect the AP's
ability to get a signal across the street?

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