[Wylug-discuss] Laptop and wireless questions

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Anne Wilson wrote:

> My home is very old, and has solid walls, up to 3 feet thick in places.  The 
> wireless connection to the lan works well in some rooms, but gets no signal 
> at all in my study.  Is there such a thing as a signal booster?  If so, where 
> would it sit in the lan?

Two ways, roaming or repeating.

If you can run cat5 then you can plug another AP in and just set it up 
them same as the first one - your client will automatically roam between 
the two.

Repeating involves WDS, most APs now-a-day support this and basically just 
bridges the first AP - you'll get lower data rates, but it's still usable.