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tricky wireless setup, need input on wired->wireless bridge and more

mcveigh

mcveigh

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I am setting up a wi-fi network in a friends house. I treid it about 6 months ago with plain old consumer 802.11b and it wouldn't reach. the house is 3 stories, sort of a open "V" shape the walls are poured concrete.

2 rooms on the bottom flor need to have internet access, nothign on the middle floor, and 4 on the third floor, everything is on one side of the house except the master bedroom on the third floor which is on the other side.


plan A) WAP in bottom floor. use these d-link range extenders third floor one on each side.

then either USB wireless nics or ethernet to wi-fi bridges on the PC's (5 kids with things like xbox, PS2 etc)

plan B) WAP in middle of house, giving a better signal to top and bottom floors. use 3 dlink range extenders 2 on corners of 3rd floor, 1 in bottom floor.

Plan C) WAP on 3rd floor, .......pretty much the revese of plan A.

I was able to get a weak signal from almost anywhere in the house. the hard part will be the 3rd floor master bedroom.

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are there any advantages to using a ethernet bridge Vs. a USB wifi nic?

I was thinking of going all D-link, I have never used them before beside nics, but they seem to be the only one with a range extender.
 
what about powerline adapters? netgear

i dont have any personal experience with these, but it sounds like you gotta do a lot of stuff to get that wireless to maybe work.
 
Originally posted by: mcveigh
are there any advantages to using a ethernet bridge Vs. a USB wifi nic?
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With a bridge, you can simply run it into a switch and you've got connectivity for multiple machines. The USB NIC only works for one machine, unless you do connection sharing of some sort, in which case you're going to end up with a subnet.

Can't help you on the other parts, sorry.

 
I wouldn't use a wap and dlink extenders together, I tried it and had issues, linksys says it will only work with another wap11.
Also the range extenders are crap, if you put it into bridge mode it has a significant negative impact on throughput.
I would try getting some bi-directional antennas to connect to the wireless cards, that should definately help. You can pick one up for about twenty bucks, it has a type N connection which would plug directly into most wireless pci cards.
 
I'm not sure why you don't just run a wire up to the top floor and forget about the problems of wireless. If you insist on going wireless, put the wireless router centerally located in the house.
 
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