On Tuesday 26 October 2004 03:40 pm, Chris Weiss wrote: >We're looking to connect our office LANs on two adjacent floors using a >wireless connection (the current cat-5 snaking out the window is not >going to cut it when the weather _really_ gets sour).
Omnidirectional antennas are *generally* optimized to focus their beams in the horizontal plane. i.e., The beam radiation pattern looks like a squashed donut. Therefore, two devices directly above/below each other will not be able to communicate efficiently because they will be in each others' donut-hole. >Amazon's got the Linksys WRT-54G for ~$60/ea... IMHO: An excellent piece of equipment for residential use but I don't know about commerical applications. WPA (TKIP or AES), DHCP, detachable dual antennas. >We'd also like to keep our existing wifi access, which leads to another >Q - I've heard that just the presence of 802.11b devices in an 802.11g >environment will drop everyone to b speeds, is that right? Set the different networks on different channels: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1152281,00.asp -- Eric P., Sunnyvale, CA _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
