Goodsounds;403387 Wrote: > iphone, > You're right that having the wireless AP in a central location is best. > For many, that's a difficult or impractical approach. > > One can prepare (or pay to have someone prepare) a central location > with incoming signal wire, electricity, shelving, etc, if that is > possible in your home. All of that takes time, money, and knowledge > that most people don't have. Alternatively, one can spend 10 minutes > and $0 with these ersatz solutions of cardboard and aluminum foil and > solve the problem. Without risking electrocution or burning your house > down. > > There was an article in the NY Times within the last few weeks about > low/no tech solutions to high tech problems, and do-it-yourself wifi > antennas were mentioned.
Your absolutely right, which is why I said that most people should just take a minute to think and see how easy or how hard it is to put the AP where it should really be. But how much knowledge and how hard is it for somebody to put a small shelf on a wall and extend a coax cable or phone line. I will tell you, not much. Closets with lights are simple, unscrew the light bulb and screw in an outlet/bulb holder and one has power and light. I don't believe very many people (if any) have ever been electrocuted by pulling a run of coax cable or Ethernet cable in their home that was wired by a certified electrician when the house was built. I guess my real point was two fold. Many people have the silly notion that the cable/DSL modem and WiFi router have to be beside their PC and many people are just to lazy to do it right the first time so they look for ways to get around doing it right which can take up more time and energy. The engineer in me will not let me not do it correctly. Sure, I have put up something temporary while I am installing/working on the final setup, but again that's just temporary. My better half would probably kill me if the AP were visible, much less if it was visible with some huge ugly homemade antenna on it. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60801 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
