Re: Recommendations for a wireless setup at a hotel
lathrop <[email protected]>
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Fred Weston wrote: > Hi All, > A friend of mine manages a hotel here in Daytona that wants to put > some sort of Internet in the rooms before the summer rush gets going. > Most of the big commercial places that specialize in that sort of > thing want way too much money and wouldn't be able to do anything for > a month or two, so we came up with a plan to do it ourselves. > > Basically, it's a small 3 story hotel and I think we can do it with 2 > access points (they have an old Linksys router in the office that > covers about 50% of the rooms, but the signal is intermittent in some > places). > > We came up with this list of parts we'll need > (http://fredwick.com/misc/wireless.htm) and I was hoping to get some > feedback as to whether we've left anything obvious off the list. One > thing I wasn't sure about is lightning arrestors. I figured we would > probably be okay without them since we're only planning on using small > 12" omnis, coupled with the fact that there are much taller (5-10 > stories) hotels on both sides. Also, we are not planning on mounting > anything on the roof, instead we are going to mount the antennas about > half way up the side of the building with a 6-8" standoff. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > Talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://seattlewireless.net/mailman/listinfo/talk > > looks good to me. give it a try. George _______________________________________________ Talk mailing list [email protected] http://seattlewireless.net/mailman/listinfo/talk