Advice sought on wireless router placement
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Advice sought on wireless router placement
We are installing wireless internet at our church site, which rambles a bit, and I知 wondering where to put the router/access point. I have a spare wireless router, but no BB connection yet, but I think (hope I知 right) that just plugging the thing in at various points in the building will provide a wireless signal which I can monitor, given a lappy and appropriate software.
Can anyone point me at appropriate software, please, so that I can wander round the site looking at signal strengths for various router positions?
Can anyone point me at appropriate software, please, so that I can wander round the site looking at signal strengths for various router positions?
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You are looking for "wireless network survey" software, or perhaps more appropriately a company suitably skilled in such things.
See also this article as a very basic how-to.
See also this article as a very basic how-to.
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Company to do the wifi audit:
Red-M Wireless Ltd
Software if you wish to do it yourself:
NetStumbler
Red-M Wireless Ltd
Software if you wish to do it yourself:
NetStumbler
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Thanks for advices, Mix & Mike. Installed 'stumbler onto a lappy and went for an amble round the house. Surprised at how many wifi networks in range; some of them useable strength, some of them unencrypted.
Will try up at the church tomorrow; I'll be interested to find what's what there.
Will try up at the church tomorrow; I'll be interested to find what's what there.
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Will try up at the church tomorrow; I'll be interested to find what's what there.
Good luck, and keep us posted.
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Hell or heaven, I don't know, never been in either yet. But it certainly works in 'my' church. Signal penetrates two walls very successfully, and 50m away and thro' a third wall it's useable - just.* So, success: we don't need to move the master socket: that saves us a few quid!
Thanks again for help.
*... however, the signal from the Weatherspoons a few doors down is a bit stronger than that. If I were feeling norty...
Thanks again for help.
*... however, the signal from the Weatherspoons a few doors down is a bit stronger than that. If I were feeling norty...
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Why not it's free.
Free WI-FI @ Wetherspoons
Shopping, working or just keeping in touch - you can do it all, FREE, in the comfort of a Wetherspoon pub.
Customers can enjoy high-speed Internet connection in over 750 hotspots. Simply switch on your Wi-Fi-enabled laptop, PDA or phone and select 'Wi-Fi Zone - The Cloud'.
Happy surfing...
Free WI-FI @ Wetherspoons
Shopping, working or just keeping in touch - you can do it all, FREE, in the comfort of a Wetherspoon pub.
Customers can enjoy high-speed Internet connection in over 750 hotspots. Simply switch on your Wi-Fi-enabled laptop, PDA or phone and select 'Wi-Fi Zone - The Cloud'.
Happy surfing...
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select 'Wi-Fi Zone - The Cloud'.
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Actually, I did take the laptop into the local 'spoons a while back and it connected no trouble. Of course, it could have changed since then.
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Yup! From time to time I pop into 'The Moon' for a pint or two of Abbot. Couple of tables of resident Irishmen who request a blessing occasionally. One stopped me the other day, "Jim, I never come into your church, but you're always in mine." (Slight exaggeration, I protest.) "Yes," quoth I, "but I suspect that if Jesus were around He'd probably be in here as often as I am." I departed, leaving grins & a slightly puzzled silence.
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Incidentally there's an article in this months PCPro magazine on trouble shooting Wi-Fi signals. Nip into your local Library and have a read, wont be in the shops for a day or two.