Wireless network performance and setup issues

[paulsiu]

From the articles I have read:

1. 802.11a is more expensive than b/g network, but suffers from less interferences. 802.11b and 11g network are affected by 2.4 Ghz phones, and household appliances.

2. 802.11a however is not so good at going through walls, which means you end up having to setup the AP to broadcast by line of sight.

3. There's no way to hook up two AP wirelessly. You can use a repeater, but at the cost of halfing your bandwidth.

It just seems like it's next to impossible to setup a totally wireless house. For folks who own their own home, it seems like the best idea is to run cat6 cable through the walls and use a wireless AP to cover the areas not reachable by the cable. Will the new wireless standard such as 802.11n have anything in the works to fix this situation.

 

[JackMDS]

Your basically are correct with your assumptions.

If you want to go Wireless you do not necessarily need to wire the whole house. You can wire to few spots and put Access Points (AP) in these spots.

Alternatively you can bridge from spot to spot without wire and connect the Bridged AP to a regular AP (No wires in the wall but more costly solution).

However how many spots you need and their locations depend on your specific envioroment.

Link to: Extending the Distance of Entry Level Wireless Network.

Link to: Wirelessly Bridging Home / Network.

801.11n? Depending on what is killing the signal or and how much distance need to be extended. In some small house it might solve the current problem.

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