I like your way of thinking Patrick: "everything can be done - it's just a question on how crazy a solution you have to come up with".
Unfortunately, we don't have any office space on the lower floors, so unless I can crawl up under the ceiling plates and hide a computer, which I tap into an electrical wire, I wouldn't be able to do that. It would probably work better if I took an line with a hook and flushed it down the toilet from 12th floor, and another one from the same toilet on 6th floor, and then hoped for those two hooks to grap eachother. I could then run a cable through the toilet drain and connect the access point on 6th floor. However, I think they would probably go crazy if they saw a line coming out of a toilet and connect to a device with two antennas on :-) A third thing that would probably work even better, would be to place the access point on 12th floor close to a window, then another access point working as a repeater in my car parked in visible site from the window. I could then use the portable computer on 6th floor as long as I was close to the window. The is called the billard style wlan :-) Ole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ole Drews Jensen Systems Network Manager CCNP, MCSE, MCP+I RWR Enterprises, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.RouterChief.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEED A JOB ??? http://www.oledrews.com/job ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ramsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WLAN: I had hoped for a better result... [7:22251] unfortuantely, that 1500 feet is for LOS.... you'll find that even going through normal walls, that the connection fails after about 50 feet. This is goign WAY out on a limb and an absolutely crazy set up for a professional establishment BUT... You could put repeaters on each floor. You could place 2 wireless nics in a linux/nt/2000 machine in adhoc mode with the wirless nics being adhoc'd to the floor above it. Create /30's between each nic and route down to the floow you are on. (you'll need pci capable machines for the pcmcia card adapter) I preferlinux myself. Free is always better! -Patrick >>> "Ole Drews Jensen" 10/05/01 03:06PM >>> This is not really a study question - but more like a request for help and feedback from those of you who have already messed with wlan. What I needed was a solution where I somewhere on 12th floor where we have most of our companies could plug in an access point, and then be able to reach it with from a portable with a wlan pcmcia card. The thing is that one of our employees have a session in a conference room on 6th floor every two months, but the room is owned by the building, and they don't want us to run any cabling down there. I found both devices from LinkSys for just about $300.- which is a pretty good buy, and you can be up to 1500 feet away from the access point. However, I found out that between floors it worked fair from 11 to 12. Very poor from 10 to 12. And from 9 and down, I could not connect. I guess the concret and other fire protection between floors are a pretty good resistance for wireless communication, so my idea did not work out here. The windows cannot be opened, so even if I got the idea to place an access-point outside our office, it couldn't be done. Me question now is - without spending thousands of $'s, since this is only to help connecting one user, is there a better approach here - a better wlan??? Thanks, Ole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ole Drews Jensen Systems Network Manager CCNP, MCSE, MCP+I RWR Enterprises, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.RouterChief.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEED A JOB ??? http://www.oledrews.com/job ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=22260&t=22251 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
