Base stations tend not to have very good antennas. In fact, some brands
simply have a PCMCIA card surrounded by gubbins. Instead of adding more base
stations, a decent antenna may be all that's necessary. Also, a base station
down one end of the room with a directional antenna may be better than an
omnidirectional in the center of the room.
>In reality, you're lucky to get 20 Mbps out of it,
> and the range is generally under 10m indoors. (I have one friend who
> deployed it in his office and discovered, much to his dismay, that it
> won't even go through cubicle walls, and he needed about 3-4 times the
> number of access points that he'd anticipated.)
Received on Mon Jul 8 12:39:07 2002