[ale] Wireless Design Suggestions

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Tue Dec 31 10:43:50 EST 2002 

 From the server room can you go up into the attic, over to a inside 
wall that you could drop all the way down to the basement?  I have a 
vertical enclosed area in my house where the furnace exhaust pipe is 
placed that is ideal for such a job.  You can make such long runs with 
ethernet that you could go up thru the attic, out an attic vent, down to 
the gutter, across and in the gutter to a downspout, out the downspout, 
over to the dryer vent, thru the wall, underneath the carpet, and 
finally into the server room.  Here is a big ;-)  on that!
Dow

PS.  Truly a crackpot at heart! :-)

Robert L. Harris wrote:

>This is exactly why I hit the list, I respect probably 99% of the
>opionins on this list as intelligent and non-crackpot.  I of corse
>belong in the 1% most would argue...
>
>I'll try and describe it best I can as I'm not living there and can't
>upload pics or a diagram.  Description is as if standing in the front
>door looking at the back wall.
>
>2story house.
>  1st floor is layed out with 4 rooms with a hallway going down the
>middle of the left and right halves.  Garage is attached on the side to
>the right, out of the scenario.  Family room where I want the one desk
>with the 3 computers is in the far left corner and the desk will go on
>the outside,backside wall.
>
>  2nd floor is pretty much identicle except the 2 farthest rooms are
>merged into one master bedroom/bathroom.  The "server room" will be in
>the closest room on the left.
>
>  As a result I have to go from top front left of the house to bottom
>left back of the house.  I have to check out the actual "filler" in the
>walls and how thick the floors if I can drop from the 2nd floor to the
>first, through the floor into the crawlspace below, then across to the
>wall where I want to put the desk and back up but that's putting a lot of
>holes in floors and probably walls to get to the floors between the
>walls to drop down.
>
>  No she won't let me run a cable out the window and back in the house
>downstairs.
>
>
>Robert
>  
>
>Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):
>
>  
>
>>Excellent point.  I've done some esoteric things to get cat5 from my 
>>basement to my 2nd floor.  It took probably twice as much cable, but I'm 
>>still married. :)
>>
>>Robert, what say you share the site layout and see if we can come up 
>>with a wired solution that's acceptable?  After all, more geeks then you 
>>can shake a stick (of memory) at on this list, someone might see 
>>something you didn't consider...
>>
>>
>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Wireless networking absolutely SUCKS!!!
>>>
>>>Slow. Expensive. Slow. SLow. SLOw. SLOW!
>>>
>>>Unless you drop the $$$$$ for 802.11a which still runs a single
>>>connection only at half the speed of a crappy wired connection. 
>>>
>>>Dropping a cat5e line between floors is not _that_ difficult. It's also
>>>cheap. For the cost of a decent AP, you can wire the entire house with
>>>cat5e. 8 port 100BaseT switches can be had for $40.
>>>
>>>Besides, how much microwave radiation does your spouse want bouncing
>>>through her? Or you for that matter? Be realistic. How long can the
>>>laptop run not plugged into the wall?  Do you really want to reduce the
>>>network speed in your house to that of a dialup line? Remember, unless
>>>you get the latest stuff (not all supported in Linux), wireless is not a
>>>full duplex transmission. And don't use the cordless phone while you are
>>>downloading.
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 13:38, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Ok, looks like we're finally getting a house next month.  At any rate,
>>>>it's a 2 story and my server room will be upstairs but I'll need to hook
>>>>up 3 machines downstairs.  I've got the ports on my 2 switches to run a
>>>>cable but my wife has pretty much infomred me I'll be sleeping on the
>>>>garage floor if I do it.
>>>>
>>>>I'm thinking of going to Costco and getting their netger wireless kit
>>>>for $150 which has an access point and a card.  I can then put the
>>>>single card into a dedicated server in the server room and the access
>>>>point in my living room.  That way the 3 machines downstairs can use
>>>>their switch to uplink to the AP.  2 of the machines are dual boot so I
>>>>don't want to use them as a router.  The 3rd is a laptop which will be
>>>>traveling.
>>>>
>>>>The server upstairs will be running 192.168.1/24 off the wireless card
>>>>and be using mac filtering for starters and then going from there as I
>>>>learn how to tighten it down more.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not worried about anyone stealing BW from me as it'll be very easy
>>>>to see them due to geography.  As per neighbors, I've got my machines
>>>>locked up pretty tight, I think they may be able to print to my printer
>>>>is all for now.
>>>>
>>>>Thoughts, theories, suggestions, etc?
>>>>
>>>>Robert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>:wq!
>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
>>>>                             
>>>>DISCLAIMER:
>>>>    These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>>>>FYI:
>>>>perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>>>>        
>>>>
>>-- 
>>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
>>
>>The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
>>Think about it...
>>
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>
>
>
>:wq!
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
>                               
>DISCLAIMER:
>      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>FYI:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>
>  
>

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