[geeks] Cheap wireless APs

[Lionel Peterson]

On May 21, 2009, at 7:04 PM, sammy ominsky <s at avoidant.org> wrote:

> On 22/05/2009, at 01:23, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
>>> You need a big house to need more than one access point...
>>
>> I beg to differ with this one.
>
> I have to agree.  We're in a rebar-reinforced poured concrete  
> apartment, and the cable modem and WRT54G are in my office on the  
> first floor.  The office is the sealed room/shelter required in all  
> new Israeli construction, and the crisscrossed rebar makes it  
> almost, but not quite, a Faraday cage.  I get close to no signal in  
> the next room.

Another outlier heard from ;^)
>
> In order to get full coverage all over our apartment, I have the  
> router in the office/shelter, another in the living room, and one  
> more upstairs so there's signal in the bedrooms too.
>
> That's three access points to cover 250 sqm because of the  
> construction.

That's steel reinforced, bomb-repelant, construction.

I'll happily concede a US-centric view on this topic, despite the  
international makeup of this community...

Lionel