req adv: commercial grade wlan access point

I need advice about commercial grade wlan access points.
I've done many an installation of a wireless router in an ordinary
home, but I have a friend who owns a big mansion (no kidding) and he's
asked me to rig him up with a wlan system. I'm in unchartered
territory here so I'd appreciate any advice or tips about what would
be good to get. I would rather buy something 2nd hand from ebay
because if I get it wrong and it doesn't do the trick I'll have to
keep the gear myself and take the loss. I've seen cisco AP's on ebay
but not sure what model would be right for my needs and I may need to
connect a bigger antenna to it. The location of the office relative to
the router is about 30 meters away through several thick brick walls
so I need something really strong.
Thanks for any advice.

tg

thanks for your feedback Is there a particular cisco model you would
recommend for the task described? I don't know one model from the
next...

tg

tg wrote:
> I need advice about commercial grade wlan access points.
> I've done many an installation of a wireless router in an ordinary
> home, but I have a friend who owns a big mansion (no kidding) and he's
> asked me to rig him up with a wlan system. I'm in unchartered
> territory here so I'd appreciate any advice or tips about what would
> be good to get. I would rather buy something 2nd hand from ebay
> because if I get it wrong and it doesn't do the trick I'll have to
> keep the gear myself and take the loss. I've seen cisco AP's on ebay
> but not sure what model would be right for my needs and I may need to
> connect a bigger antenna to it. The location of the office relative to
> the router is about 30 meters away through several thick brick walls
> so I need something really strong.
> Thanks for any advice.

Well, I don't own a mansion, but that hasn't stopped me from installing
a dual wireless router system in my hovel. One router which is connected
to the broadband modem is the main router. The second one has had all of
it routing functions and dhcp functions turned off, so it acts basically
like a hub or a bridge only.

The routers are connected to each other through a set of Powerline
Ethernet adapters. The powerline ethernet adapters send data over the
house's electrical powerplugs. As long as the house doesn't have two or
more main breaker boxes, data can flow through all of the house's
electrical plugs; if there are more than one break box, then it's
possible that this solution won't work for you.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan

"Yousuf Khan" <> wrote in message news:...
> tg wrote:

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> The routers are connected to each other through a set of Powerline Ethernet adapters.
> The powerline ethernet adapters send data over the house's electrical powerplugs. As
> long as the house doesn't have two or more main breaker boxes, data can flow through all
> of the house's electrical plugs; if there are more than one break box, then it's
> possible that this solution won't work for you.
>
> Yousuf Khan

belated reply but thanks for your advice Yousuf. I took your advice and went for the
network-over-mains adaptors and was very pleased that a) it worked and b) it really was
plug and play - no set-up, nothing, it just worked straight away. In the eyes of the
property owner and the staff this meant I was an instant hero and that the whole mansion
from end to end could now be networked with ease. Thanks again.

tg

On Jun 4, 5:26 pm, "tg" <t...@nospamevereverever.net> wrote:
> belated reply but thanks for your advice Yousuf. I took your advice and went for the
> network-over-mains adaptors and was very pleased that a) it worked and b) it really was
> plug and play - no set-up, nothing, it just worked straight away. In the eyes of the
> property owner and the staff this meant I was an instant hero and that the whole mansion
> from end to end could now be networked with ease. Thanks again.

Yes, it's a very good solution, although it's not utilized quite often
enough. The signal is faster than a WiFi connection, especially at
large distances away from the router. And of course, it is not
mutually exclusive to WiFi, you can use it in aid of WiFi for large
houses such as your example.

Yousuf Khan

YKhan