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Old 24th September 2004, 16:11   #1
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Due to the construction of the building i think the best solution would be to have 2 access points (in stead of one with big antenna). This would be 2 times a D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DI-624 Wireless Router.
This way access will be great throughout the building, i only need 1 IP (doubts ?) and i still have an option to plug in a cat5 directly in the router at two places.

Going for Scarlet ADSL with high upload.

Already have a modem (Alcatel home touch).

Sharing and security are not extremly important as the house is fairly isolated from other houses.

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Old 24th September 2004, 16:40   #2
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why are u going from the modem to the switch and not to 1 of the routers

get 1 router and 2 accespoints

put the modem on the wanport of the router and the accespoints on the lanports.

if u realy want the possibility to plug in a cat5 cable in @ the accespoints, u need to switch them over to routers, with the dhcp disabled probalby
 
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1) why are u going from the modem to the switch and not to 1 of the routers

get 1 router and 2 accespoints
put the modem on the wanport of the router and the accespoints on the lanports.
1 switch + 2 routers/acc-points = cheaper
But price is not a very important factor as all home routers / switches / acc-points are cheap. Could even go for 3 acc-points for optimal connectivity.
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Old 25th September 2004, 13:24   #4
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you can't go from your modem to a switch, unless you have a built in router already, and even then the routers/AP's don't do anything but act as an IP.

Go from the modem directly to router/AP 1 and have a cable connect router/AP 1 to router/AP 2

Give both a different IP, but the same channel, WEP key, etc etc etc. Deactivate the DHCP, gateway etc. of router/AP 2, since router/AP 1will be handeling all of that.
 
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Thanks for the remarks, specially those concerning the AP setup.

The route you described is quite impossible because of building limitations.
I can "pull" a straight cable from the modem to AP1 or AP2, but not to AP1 and then to AP2.

I would deactivate DHCP anyway.

Could people with wireless AP's give me an average range in which their connectivity is OK (lossless) in house.
As far as i know the average is about 20 meters.

Second thing i want to know is if the connectivity is really bad when the AP is behind a wall (even if the distance is only 1 or 2 meters)
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Two stories house; about 25 meters never have any problem.

Floor and walls in between make no difference in my case.
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Unpacking DI-624 till surfing cabled : 4min 30sec

Making changes to telephone-centrale and laying one cable from that central (and the modem) to a central point in the house for the router : 8 hours

Looking for some tool to measure the wireless network throughput on a notebook ... while i wander around the house
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Ah, there's a tool in the dlink xtremeG utility.
Walls are thick here, lots of concrete. I'll have to install a second transmitter on the ground floor too.
Coverage on the first floor is OK.
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11mbit ?
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11mbit ?
auto !

108 Mbit ? not seen yet
54 Mbit within 10 metres
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6 Mbit : slowest on the ground floor (router on first floor) about 20 metres in direct line

Not a lot of time as i have some financial results/papers and accompaning headaches to overwin by tommorow
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