Wireless home network

[noncentz420]

Ok so I will be setting up a wireless network at a clients house and I was wondering if this is a feasible solution

The house is 2 Story, 4000 Sq feet
There is an office 150 feet from the house that is an office

My original plan is to set up a wireless AP from the router. Then disperse 2 more wireless routers that will propagate the signal across the whole house. Then my plan for the outside room would be to stick a directional attenna facing the office.

Does this sound resonable .... does to me

 

[NoCalAdmin]

don't think you need any directional attenna, just place an access point inside the house to receive the original signal. It'll boost the signal for the users in the house. Should be enough. I am bouncing my original signal from building one, to building two which has an access point and I get signal throughout my house and brick deached garage. Without the access point I get no signal out back and so low inside I can't use it.

Tom

 

[Crowtalks]

I agree that your directional antenna would be a better choice to help prevent neighbors from catching the signal and trying to hack. We have a Motel/Apt setup with directionals and they work great.

 

[raygg]

Fairly inexperienced with wireless. I have a home netwk with 1 xpsp2, 2 w2k and 1 98se desktop. I input broadband thru a Linksys 8 port befsr41 v2 which I use as the netwk router and external firewall. In addition I added a Belkin wireless-g F5D7230-4 router and set it up as a wireless access point which my wife accesses with her laptop. I would like to eliminate some of the wiring for the pc's. Currently I use a 4 button kvm switch to bounce from one pc to another, using only one monitor and 1 mouse. Can I get rid of the cat5, mouse and video wires by adding netgear wg311 wireless pc adapter and install pcanywhere thereby allowing me to still use the xp desktop as my prime box and effectively replace the kvm wiring with wireless and pcanywhere when I switch from one box to another? The guy at the compusa store said no but I am game to get rid of the wires anyway. He claims that pcanywhere will work fine in my present wired netwk but the wifi protocol cannot handle it.

 

[picohat]

PCanywhere should not be affect by wifi network as TCP/IP is still used in wifi network.

Wireless Network Setup Tutorial

Hope helps..