Hi there - New York's "Center For Architecture" opened recently in early October at 536 LaGuardia Place, between Bleecker & W.3rd Streets in Greenwich Village. We are a facility that serves both the public and professional members of the AIA (American Institute of Architects), providing educational facilities, galleries, and seminar/lecture space.
I volunteered to coordinate the various technologies to be installed in this new facility. We decided to provide free, public access WiFi to our members and visitors. To that end, I purchased and installed three (3) Orinoco/Proxim AP-2500 units, which came with a/b cards. I have one on each of our three floors, and coverage is good (with good signal spilling out across the street). These units all pass DHCP which is dished up from a Linksys 4-port (BEF-SR41); all these units are on a network completely physically separate from our organization's private, business infrastructure. The problem is that the wireless network works...for a while...then it doesn't: it's unreliable. A PC will continually get served a unique IP address, but it seems that other IP services, including getting external internet, will work sometimes, but not at others. I don't know why it doesn't work properly, but then again, I'm not an expert and am a little out of my comfort zone here. I haven't published our site on NYCWireless' AP node map yet, because of this unreliable, 'spotty' behavior. Can any of you provide me some insight or assistance that could aid me in getting this WAP working? Anyone have any experience with this sort of configuration? Is there something 'obvious' that I should be looking for? Thanks in advance. John Howell, AIA Architect / Technologist Center For Architecture 212-358-6100 x200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
