[ale] Wireless Design Suggestions

[Dow Hurst]

I've got a new cordless drill for Christmas so anyone want me to ruin 
their walls and ceiling? ;-)
Dow

PS.  Nothing works better than picking a closet and drilling up thru the 
ceiling in the corner and then down thru the floor.  Drop the wire and 
your done.  This is acceptable only south of the Mason-Dixon line.

PPS.  I was born and bred right here in Georgia so I can say stuff like 
that.

attriel wrote:

>>This is exactly why I hit the list, I respect probably 99% of the
>>opionins on this list as intelligent and non-crackpot.  I of corse
>>belong in the 1% most would argue...
>>    
>>
>
>I'm glad you did :)  I've been looking at hooking wireless up in my house
>so i can unclutter the living room.  Unfortunately, my problem is kindof
>backwards from yours :/  I've got hte DSL and my wife's computers
>upstairs, my desktops and the servers in the living room.  I want to move
>the servers to the basement where i have a nice closet and they can be out
>of the way :)  (the ventilation is poor, at best, upstairs, so putting
>them there is not an option).  My wife is geek enough to accept the
>layout, but the servers produce a bit of noise, we want the space back,
>and we're tired of tripping over the danged wire all the time on the
>stairs!!!
>
>I was gonna put an AP in the room with the DSL modem and another in the
>basement with the servers, so the two wireless hubs can talk to each
>other, but I wasn't sure about security/bandwidth stealing :/
>
>I hadn't really though of actually just dropping the wire ... Your
>question brought some good info!  Now I just need to look at the house
>layout more and figure out the best way to drop the wire ...
>
>(I can't do the VPN solution that was suggested for you and someone else,
>since then I'd have 4 servers choking through 1 machine for their
>throughput, and they need realworld addresses so people can hit them :/)
>
>--attriel, now looking at dropping wire
>
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