jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Nov 27 10:45:17 CST 2007
LOL. "Near" is not an adjective I would use, "easy afternoon drive" would be more like 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 Mark A Matte Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:52 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] MIMO-G router Hmmm...Just happen to live near you...have some skills...and I already have the "fish tape". Let me know. Mark > From: jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:58:39 -0500 > Subject: [AccessD] MIMO-G router > > I would love to do that but the "details" always get in the way. My > office is up in "the attic", in a "bonus room" kind of thing above my bedroom. > Thus on the other side of the office wall is the rest of the attic for > the house. I can certainly run a cable through there. The problem is > that the attic gets well over 130 degrees F during the day in the > summer and so no electronics are going to like that environment. Thus > I would have to snake the cable down a wall to get it into the house. > And therein lies the problem, I don't know how to do that. Not to > mention all the nasty fiberglass insulation and stuff. > > > 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 Jim Dettman > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:32 AM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] MIMO-G router > > John, > > Just do a single run of Cat5e (6 if you might go to gigabit) over to > the other end of the house and put a WAP on the end of it and be done with it. > > You'll have plenty of coverage for the entire house that way. > > You can do this on the cheap to if you have another wireless router > laying around. Just plug the cable into one of the ports (not the > Internet Port), disable all the routing type functions (DHCP, etc), > assign a static IP to the box, and it will act as a wireless access point. > > Jim. > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Your smile counts. The more smiles you share, the more we donate. Join in. www.windowslive.com/smile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_oprsmilewlhmtagline -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com