My house is two-and-a-half stories and all concrete. (Floors, interior walls, etc.) I originally had a single WAP11 placed in a centrally-located stairway on the main floor, and barely had coverage from 40 feet away. Almost no signal made it out of the house at all, so browsing the web while sitting on the porch was out.
I've since added two more RG1000s at strategic locations to improve coverage inside the house. There are still a couple of areas (bathrooms!) that receive almost no signal, but those are places that I don't plan on using a laptop :^) Coverage outside is localized - there are some rooms that reflect signal through windows. Still pretty poor, though. In short - drop a wire and add another AP where needed. You'll save yourself a lot of frustration. -==- Barrett -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Richard Buckley' Subject: [BAWUG] concrete Hi folks We are working in a concrete building with thick concrete floors and walls and we need to go through approx. 4feet of concrete at a distance of 150 feet. We are using a Lynksys 54g access point and 9db antenna being picked up by a WMP54G Wireless PCI LAN Adapter. It is not working for us at the moment, do we need to use a stronger antenna to pick up the signal or will any signal get through 4 feet of concrete at all? I have seen only one thread in the recent past dealing with the thickness of concrete where someone stated that " driving a 12cm wave through a couple meters of concrete and steel doesn't work that well..." Any thoughts on it would be greatly appreciated -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
