Wireless cards

**Papewaio** · 06-08-2007, 10:50

Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt

Nothing wrong with CAT5 as long as you take the time to rip a few floorboards up.
I tried wireless and hated it, as did another couple of people I know. It seems OK if your house is made from plasterboard, but in little stone houses in the north of England it just seems to struggle (mind you, my sister has her router directly 1 room above her PC and her signal fluctuates, nothing but floorboards inbetween).
I spent an afternoon running cables in under the floor and guess what? It works flawlessly.
Sure the wireless is still OK when my wife wants to shop on ebay in the garden, but the two desktops won't ever be going back to wireless I dont think.
Give me a physical connection every time.

(but I would say that being a telephone engineer.)

I think wireless is improving, give it a few years and it will be fine.

I have a wireless router...ADSL2 and about 600m from the exchange.... but I still plug directly into it the router via USB port most of the time... the phone cable goes up the wall, across the ceiling and down behind a picture frame before splitting between router and phone... I'm not sure if the wife would approve of me putting it behind the wall... I would love to have a fully kitted out place... but I don't think being able to run cables under the floor with removeable floor tiles and air conditioning built for the PC and not the home will be seen as a great thing.

Yes I too am a Telephony Engineer.

**Whacker** · 06-09-2007, 07:56

Originally Posted by Papewaio

I have a wireless router...ADSL2 and about 600m from the exchange.... but I still plug directly into it the router via USB port most of the time... the phone cable goes up the wall, across the ceiling and down behind a picture frame before splitting between router and phone... I'm not sure if the wife would approve of me putting it behind the wall... I would love to have a fully kitted out place... but I don't think being able to run cables under the floor with removeable floor tiles and air conditioning built for the PC and not the home will be seen as a great thing.

Lots of fellow nerds itt. Not particularly fond of the idea of people banging away at my wireless network since I know how insanely easy it is. I was thinking about perhaps in this or the next house, mounting a wireless AP/antenna up in the attic at a centralized point in the house, in such a manner that the signal forms a rough cone of coverage that includes the house and maybe a bit outside or so, but not much beyond that. I haven't really researched this at all so I don't know if there's even any reasonably priced antennae that would fit the bill or if I'd run into problems mounting one facing directly down, but it still strikes me as a good idea for signal shaping.