Re: Advice on creating small net?

Is there a point that you can get to that can see both the office and the 
house?  That would be the place to put a repeater.


You may have to roll your own repeater by putting two access points back to
back.

A flat panel in the home window (or preferably outside it) would be better than
a cantenna.



Quoting seawireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> 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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