jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Nov 26 14:46:13 CST 2007
Rocky, I am definitely looking at this, however I have had a bad experience with power line transmission. I have an "intercom" system which is supposed to send the voice over the AC wiring. It works, except that it will not send from this circuit to that circuit etc. I had the same issue with that same system back in CT. It seems the issue is the circuits in the breaker panel. This is a physically big house, with a new addition and the original house, plus I installed a generator and pulled some circuits into a dedicated breaker box for the generator etc. That Rangemax system costs just enough that I don't want to try it. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:58 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] MIMO-G router John: I struggled with the wireless thing for a couple of years. Same problem - weak signal even after I upgraded to the Netgear Rangemax. I solved the problem with the Netgear wall-plugged bridge (XE102). They're rock solid, no installation, no configuration, no wireless security issue, plug and play. It's like a hard wired connection and uses you house wiring. So no more wireless. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:24 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [AccessD] MIMO-G router Santa dropped off one of those new routers (Netgear WPN824v2) which have a bunch of antennas and dynamically selects the one picking up the strongest signal and uses that for talking to the wireless computers (mostly laptops). I have to say that it kinda sorta works. I bought it specifically because Mary's laptop, down a floor and a couple of rooms over, has poor reception. I use Network Stumbler to test signal strength. After the install, with the old router still out there, her laptop gets roughly the same, or slightly poorer reception via this new router in her office. However if I take her laptop on out to the dining room at the far end of the house, the signal strength is definitely higher, by about 6db on average and sometimes more, than the old router. I am looking to buy my wife a Tivo Series 2 and will need the usb wireless to do the phone home stuff. It will be in the living room at the far end of the house, so it is encouraging that I get that much better reception down there. I already have an old Series 1 Tivo down in the bedroom directly below my office, and am buying a bridge to put on it to get the wireless down to it. Currently I am running a cable down the stairs and manually connecting it to the Series 1 once a week to phone home. Yuk! I am looking to keep the old router in place however and put the new one "in parallel", i.e. I will place a plain old vanilla 10/100 switch immediately behind the cable modem, then plug BOTH wireless routers in to that. Thus I can have a wireless system (the new one) that talks to the internet, but not to my internal (business) LAN. The original router will talk to the internet as well but will have its firewall between the internal LAN and the new router. All of the Tivos and my wife's laptop and my son's laptop will all talk to the internet through the new router and not be behind the business firewall (the old wireless router). The hoops we jump through. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.7/1151 - Release Date: 11/25/2007 4:24 PM -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com