Building design & WiFi problem
I am trying to resolve a problem of WiFi coverage in a fairly recently-built property in the UK. Coverage is poor in general and there are several rooms that are total dead spots.
After much investigation, I've pinned it down to the building construction. The key issue is that the internal walls and ceilings have been constructed using metal-foil-backed plasterboard. Even the insides of the exterior walls are finished with the same material. Michael Farady would've been proud of the builder.
By way of confirmation, mobile phone signal levels are abysmal inside the building, better very close to a window, and good and strong just outside of it.
Multiple WiFi access points linked to a wired backbone is the classical approach, but would not be welcomed by the customer.
- I've heard of wireless relays - anybody have experience of them?
- Any other suggestions for a solution?
- Ripping out the bacofoil is not an option :-)
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Frazer Jolly Goodfellow in Wireless Networking
