Hector J Rios wrote: > I’m wondering if any of you ever ran into a situation where you had to > install wireless in an old building where most of the walls where brick > with wire-mesh and plaster. How did you approach this problem? How did > you design the network? How did it perform?
We put wireless into an historic house in town. For cosmetic reasons we didn't want to locate access points in plain sight. Without going into the details of our particular installation (low-loss coax, splitters, multiple antennas), have a look at the floor and ceiling construction. We got good signal from below through the wood flooring rather than through the wall masonry... -- Regards, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "When I can no longer bear my loneliness I take it to my friends." --Mechtild of Magdeburg. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
