[ALUG] Wifi again

[Chris G]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:29:53PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 21-Dec-07 10:49:08, Barry Samuels wrote:
> > [...]
> > I'm going to run a new telephone cable across the attic and down into 
> > the room with the HomePlug unit and move the router into that room 
> > which means that we have to either use wireless to connect my Wife's 
> > machine or try and use an existing telephone cable as a network cable 
> > to connect to her machine.
> > 
> > I have no means of testing the wireless connection between the rooms 
> > upstairs as I don't have a long enough ethernet cable to try it. I can 
> > put the WAP into that room and scan for a signal which is what those 
> > figures were all about.
> > 
> > I hope that all makes sense.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Barry Samuels
> 
> Barry, if you're going to run a cable anyway, might you
> not be able to put in a proper ethernet cable?
> 
> I don't know what the longest is that you can readily buy
> "off the shelf", but probably you can find a long enough one.
> I think I've seen 20m cables on sale and maybe longer

You can definitely buy 30 metre ones and probably longer.

Or you can get female<-->female RJ45 connectors

-- 
Chris Green