With antennas, I also have the same problem and I am on the second floor,
but our house is brick and has very thick walls. On some repeaters I get
into with no problem up stairs using my magmount and even some form out of
the area, but downstairs forget it, and even the 900 MHz phone that is
downstairs doesn't work well upstairs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: need advice on wireless connection
> That's what I was thinking, houses in Phoenix are
> mostly made of chicken wire and stucco. I've noticed
> the difference with our wooden farm house here in
> Kansas, I can get out real good on 2, 10 and 11 meters
> from inside antennas. If I go up in to the attic
> though, forget it, I think the roof is metal. I know
> the roof over the kitchen, which I could go walk on to
> from my step dad's upstairs den, is metal, magmounts
> stick.
> --- Darrell Shandrow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I'm sure the construction of the walls makes a huge
> > difference. If they're
> > mostly just wood, plaster and such then the signal
> > should go right through
> > with a minimum of loss. If, however, there's lots
> > of metal inside the
> > walls, well, then, the signal losses will be huge.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 8:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: need advice on wireless connection
> >
> >
> > > Not sure,b ut they're on the same bands as
> > everyone else, I think 2.4 gig.
> > I
> > > argued for hours with tech support on that 1 day
> > and they pretty much told
> > > me it won't work well through walls, and my signal
> > really is nowhere near
> > > what it should be, I should cover my hole house
> > easy and I can't do it but
> > > with sohoware, I could cover the hole house easy
> > on the worst day.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 4:51 PM
> > > Subject: Re: need advice on wireless connection
> > >
> > >
> > > > Could linksys be using 18 gigahertz or
> > something? that
> > > > why it doesn't go through walls well?
> > > >
>
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