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townhouse coverage - mostly vertical

A friend just moved into a townhouse while their house is undergoing some remodeling... The townhouse owner just left for FLA for the winter.

Anyway - the townhouse has DSL, and the modem is up in the loft on the 2nd floor at a computer desk - for a wired desktop - No WiFi -

Thoughts on how to cover the upstairs area - loft, 2 bedrooms, and the main floor - dining, great room - with Wifi ?? Since the loft is directly above the dining/great room, the RF donut coverage might prove to be poor.... Maybe just some experimenting with moving the antennas from vertical to slightly off vertical would rotate the donut pattern enough to cover downstairs \\.

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ps56k
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hmmm - may not be a problem. Just walked around our 2-story with NetStumbler running on one of our laptops... in S/N graphing mode. Our DSL is connected upstairs on the 2nd floor, in an extra bedroom. Walking around, found the coverage directly under the WAP was fine.

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ps56k

Orienting the dipole antenna to favor the downstairs should work okay. If not, a directional antenna should put a good signal through those floors. The concrete, metal, and wood in a building can attenuate the wi-fi signal if you're going through more than two levels - the throughput starts going dow.

As for antennas with gain, a yagi, biquad, or long helical should get signals through plenty of wood and concrete. These same antennas make it possible to connect over hundreds of meters of free-space.

Good Luck Phil

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