[Wylug-discuss] Laptop and wireless questions

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 22 Jul 2005 11:18, gARetH baBB wrote:
> 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.
>
I don't think that's on.  I already have three cat5 cables coming through 
those thick walls, and the holes just won't take any more.  I daren't suggest 
still more wall-mining :-)

> 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.
>
I'll read up on this, thanks.

Anne
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