On 21 Jan 2003 at 13:28, James W. Tseng wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the most economical way to > extend an indoor 802.11b WLAN. My environment is > actually an office inside a hospital where the DSL > line is coming in. I want to extend the WLAN signal > into an operating room suite that is adjacent to the > office. > > I have seen products such as the Linksys WAP11, which > I understand can be sort of daisy-chained into > infinite repeaters. A recent product, Dlink's > DWL-900+, also has repeating function limited to one > "hop". > > Are there any other products that I should consider? > I assume that with the setup I have in mind, simply > getting a more powerful antenna probably wouldn't > suffice. Is there a web page somewhere that is a good > resource of information?
If the office and OR are adjacent, I don't see what the problem is... unless the wall that separates them has a lot of steel in it. If the wall has a lot of steel in it, then playing with repeaters and antennas is a waste of time. My suggestion? Try a wireless router of some sort. A Linksys BEFW11S4 or a D-Link DI714P+ should do the job. See of the signal will go through the wall. If it does, you're problem is resolved. If it doesn't, then go to plan B.... Several plan B's.... if you already have a Linksys BEFW11S4 or WAP11 in place, you could try Linksys's signal booster. It's pretty new, but I've good things about it here. Demarco Tech (hope I got the name right) has some higher powered devices, as does Surf'n'sip and Netgate.com which could boost the power and sensitivity in the OR. The simplest - and cheapest - answer, politics and medical realities permitting, would be to run an ethernet cable through the wall and put the AP in the OR. The next simplest - and cheapest - answer is to just run some LM400 cable through the wall and put an antenna in the OR with the WAP in the office. Good luck, Mike -- Mike Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16241692 AOL IM:MAvery81230 Phone: 970-642-0280 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Product Warning THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this merchandise should contact anti-matter in any form, a catastrophic explosion will result. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
