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Re: [RFI] HomePlug Experience?

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Subject: Re: [RFI] HomePlug Experience?
From: "Michael Keane, K1MK" <k1mk@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:40:42 -0400
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Third-party firmware (e.g, DD_WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, etc.) can turn a 
Wireless Access Point (or a Wireless Router) device into a combination  
Wireless Access Point/Range Extender (repeater).

With one of these  kind of devices on each floor,  a wireless connection 
made to a WAP on the 2nd floor can be relayed to the WAP on the 1st 
floor, and from there via either ethernet or wireless to the router in 
the basement at the expense of a few hundred microsecs latency in the 
wireless relays.

You can optimize the position of the two extenders to and in extreme 
cases even use directional antennas to push a point-to-point link 
through pretty much any reasonable sort of obstruction like a floor or a 
wall.

This is the configuration that I use in my 1950's vintage house.

73,
Mike K1MK

On 07/15/2010 10:55 PM, Eric Rosenberg wrote:
>    It looks like I'll need HomePlug to get from my router in the basement
> to the second floor, as no wireless devices penetrate this 70-year old
> plaster and lathing house.
>
> I presently have five Ethernet runs in the basement and two to the main
> floor above the shack.  They don't appear to be noisy or have an impact
> on my urban station.
>
> Do any of you have experience with HomePlug in/near the shack?
>
> I'd like to know about your experience!
>
> Thanks,
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington, DC
>    

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