It's best to wire each access point. Repeaters and such degrade the performance. Where no wiring is possible, then such a device is necessary.
Try to choose B or G, you may not get all the performance of G in a mixed B and G environment. Cisco and others make a combo 802.11ab device. They also support a repeater mode. If you must use a device in repeater mode, make sure you test with a variety of devices to ensure compatibility. In some retail installations that I've done, I went to great lengths to wire every Access Point. This way, I could ensure high performance through the location. Some of these locations were difficult to wire, exceeding the ethernet spec. I prefered a wired ethernet repeater over a wireless repeater for it's better performance. I installed in six stores, 2-3 AP's each, in three weeks. No service calls in over a year, except for a few AP's that died. Another method is to use a 5GHz device to distribute to remote 802.11b devices. In this setup you reduce the chances of interference and allow yourself more 2.4GHz RF spectrum. A site survey is necessary to check for interference, antenna choices and positioning. -What is the size of the space? -Which applications do you expect to support? -How many simultaneous users are expected? If this is typical web surfing and such, the speed of 802.11b should be more than enough. Don't use consumer grade equipment. Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pasadena Networks, LLC. http://pasadena.net On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Jackson wrote: > My company is looking to create a wireless hot spot on 1 floor of a 16 > story building. We are looking into many different brands of Wireless > Bridges to create a Wireless Distribution System. There are products > from D-Link that tout 108Mbps, Linksys, Cisco, etc. Does anyone know > of an access point that has this point to multi-point capability where > each wireless bridge can act as a slave or a master? This way I can > set the
