[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless Home Network

[Jack Snodgrass]

My attic is too hot. If I really wanted to do something
like this, I'd see about putting the router up high and
putting an external antenna in the attic and running 
the cable from the router, through the celing to the 
antenna in the attic. You can't have a long cable run, 
but if you have a centrally located closet, something like
this would work out nicely. 

jack 


On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:19, Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Lance Simmons <lance at lsimmons.net> [040623 13:48]:
> > * terry <kj5zr at yahoo.com> [040623 13:22]:
> > > You could go through a couple of sheetrock walls but the distance
> > > will be shorter.
> > 
> > That's what I wanted to hear!  Thanks, everyone!  I'm going to give it
> > a try.
> 
> Reporting back:  I went with the d-link (atheros-based) cards and
> router.  Compiling the modules was simple enough.  I had to do it for
> each machine, because they are all different (P2, P4, Athlon, with some
> of them smp).
> 
> I'm using the wireless router only to connect to my internal network; I
> don't want a wireless router to be the first thing a potential intruder
> encounters.  Also, this way I can place the wireless router anywhere in
> the house I want, thus expanding coverage.  I'm thinking about the
> attic.
> 
> Is that a stupid idea?  Would the Texas heat kill a wireless router?
> Has anyone done it?