wja777
10-24-2007, 10:31 AM
I have a conference room that is on the same floor but down the hall from our main office area. Because of this i can not run a wire to the location. There are walls, (some cement) in the way. Because of the walls, the wireless connection from our main office is spotty at best. If you get connected, you will probably loose your connection at least once during a 30 minute meeting.
I have thought about purchasing "power line" adapters and trying those to establish a "wired" connection that I could hook an access point to, but this conference room is not on the same electric panel as our main office, so I don't know if "power line" technology has the ability to "jump" meters.
I have put an access point in the hall, and this works - but it is a public hallway.
I do have two windows on the same outside wall in the conference room and the main office. Is there a bridging technology that would allow me to hang outside antenna's from the windows to get a network connection in this conference room? The users in the conference room will need to have wireless ability, so the bridge will need to hook up to another wireless AP?
If i were to go with the hallway solution, should I set the AP up on its own ssid, or should I set it up as a repeater? Its my understanding that using a repeater slows the entire wireless connection speed down, is this true?
All advice welcome.... Thanks in advance...
I have thought about purchasing "power line" adapters and trying those to establish a "wired" connection that I could hook an access point to, but this conference room is not on the same electric panel as our main office, so I don't know if "power line" technology has the ability to "jump" meters.
I have put an access point in the hall, and this works - but it is a public hallway.
I do have two windows on the same outside wall in the conference room and the main office. Is there a bridging technology that would allow me to hang outside antenna's from the windows to get a network connection in this conference room? The users in the conference room will need to have wireless ability, so the bridge will need to hook up to another wireless AP?
If i were to go with the hallway solution, should I set the AP up on its own ssid, or should I set it up as a repeater? Its my understanding that using a repeater slows the entire wireless connection speed down, is this true?
All advice welcome.... Thanks in advance...