[MLB-WIRELESS] WLAN layout suggestions?

[Will Lanigan]

yeah the cantennas can pull some totally amazing shit
i can get thru several _houses_ which is a shitload of brick walls

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin" <littlejuz at optusnet.com.au>
To: "Bruce Paterson" <paterson at tassie.net.au>;
<melbwireless at www.wireless.org.au>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] WLAN layout suggestions?


> Bruce,
>
>  Have you tried moving the wireless router around the room to see if it
> makes a difference?
>
>  The other thing I'm thinking is how about a cantenna? Should be easier to
> build than an Omni and cheaper too. Focus those milli watts and blast
> throught that brick wall! ;)
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Gaz.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Bruce Paterson
> Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 8:24 AM
> To: melbwireless at www.wireless.org.au
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] WLAN layout suggestions?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been banging my head against a reinforced brick wall in the
> stairway of my two-storey block of flats about the best way to get my
> WLAN running across the block. This one wall stops the signal in its
> tracks (see layout gif attached).
>
> If anyone has some suggestions I would offer you my first-born, etc.
>
> I think the solution is an access point or wireless router to which
> an external omni aerial can easily be attached and stuck on the roof
> above the offending wall to service both LANS. Hopefully it would get
> signal through to LAN1 on the first floor and LAN2 on the ground
> floor. Or do I have to worry about the cone of silence?
>
> At my end I have a Netgear MR314. Peeking through the ventilation
> holes I can see its got a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA card in it, but I
> don't know if you can attach external aerials to them even if I could
> get the metal case open. An alternative would be to use a mac or pc
> with an enterasys card as the router, attached to the external
> antenna.
>
> I'm planning to share a broadband connection to be installed at LAN1.
>
> Can an access point at LAN2 bridge between the external antenna and
> the wired network at LAN2?
>
> If anyone's good at building omnis, let's talk :-)
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
>
>
>
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