[ALUG] Wifi again

[Chris G]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:49:08AM +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
> > Are you having any other problems or symptoms of a problem on your
> > network?
> > 
> > Adam
> 
> This all started when I decided that I wanted to move my desktop from a 
> room upstairs to a room downstairs but leaving my wife's desktop in the 
> original room upstairs.
> 
> There is a telephone point in the upstairs room to which the router is 
> connected and there is a wireless access point to accommodate my 
> laptop. At present the two desktops are connected to the router with 
> ethernet cables.
> 
> There is no telephone point in the room downstairs. Before I move my 
> desk and computer downstairs I want to be sure that it can connect to 
> the network reliably. 

I have everything hard-wired even in our large rambling house.  It
just takes a little imagination and exploration to route the wires.

The master socket (with ADSL splitter faceplate) is in my study so the
router and switch are there.  My computer and two printers on the
network are there too.  So far so good, the cables to the printers and
the rest of the house have to run under a doorway so I made two small
holes in the chipboard floor and 'fished' with a bent coat hanger to
pull wires through.

Maxine's computer is in the adjacent study (large and rambling
remember, two studies) and I have made a hole in the wall for
connections to that and also to upstairs.  That hole is about the only
structural thing I've done and it's under some shelves anyway.

Then from Maxine's study there's Cat5 running up a service duct
(drains etc.) to the first floor and then under floorboards and in
roof void right across the house to my son's room where there was
another computer but now there's just some interconnections and thence
two wires out of the window to the garage where I have another
computer and a NAS drive.  Only one is actually necessary now as I
have an old hub in the garage for the two things there.

Wirelss - just say no!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green