RE: Aesthetic ceiling mounted wi-fi access points

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

It must be to do with the WAP that is being used. At home i have two and if
i move more than two blockwork walls away the signal drops tremendously.

However i was sitting outside a customers building today, in my tin box car
then their brick and blockwork offices and managed to utilise net
connections on 3 open Wireless networks one of which had 100% strength on
my
Dell Axim !!

I was a little suprised by this, especially as i was informed that the
networks belong to Computer specialists :)




Dean.






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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 March 2004 15:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Aesthetic ceiling mounted wi-fi access points



> Initially, I would've agreed, but then I remembered a test I
> did. I've got a Linksys WAP11 and I put this in a metal
> locker with steel sides approx. 1.5 mm thick. Closed the lid
> and saw very little, if any signal degradation when
> monitoring via NetStumbler.
>
> Dunno why it worked as I was expecting the signal to
> disappear, but it didn't. Odd eh ?
>
> YMMV, of course :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
> (all explanations welcome, BTW)

Cheap Taiwanese steel mate...

...they make it out of straw and beetle dung you know.

Phil



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