Large Wireless Network Advice

[Viterix777]

My friend is a landlord at a apartment building and I agreed to help him setup a wireless network that can provide wireless access to his tenants. The building is fairly big 158 unit 5-story apartment building. The building is 5 stories and was built around 1950 so concrete floors and metal lath and plaster walls, fairly heavy construction so I needed to put a wireless network together that could penetrate all that crap.

My initial idea was to pick up a Trendnet TEW-310APBX access point that allowed for ap to ap connectivety which would allow for a large number of logins. I was also thinking of attaching atleast a 12 dbi gain antenna to each AP and having two AP's saturate the entire complex. If anyone has any better thoughts on how to do this or any better equipment to use, it would be most appreciated.

Thanks All...

 

[Lord Evermore]

Phone-line networking (if possible) or power-line networking would be much simpler to set up. What sort of Internet access is he planning? Gotta be fast otherwise it'll be no better than dialup if enough people use it.

 

[Viterix777]

Looking to have atleast a regular cable connetion but most likely a T-1.

 

[Soybomb]

Ugh, I think I'd hate to do this with wireless. I haven't used it but I know alot of wisp guys will hit a building with wireless and distribute it with this http://www.ethersplit.com/ Maybe you can look into something like that.

 

[Viterix777]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
Ugh, I think I'd hate to do this with wireless. I haven't used it but I know alot of wisp guys will hit a building with wireless and distribute it with this http://www.ethersplit.com/ Maybe you can look into something like that.

I took a look into this and it seems like a good idea to maybe mix wireless with this. Maybe use these in the rooms and place AP's by the pool and conference rooms. But it would still be nice if there was a sure fire way to make the entire place wireless with the use of as little wires as possible. Thanks for the tip...