Going wireless, what to buy?

[PLtNmHeLiX]

A good friend of mine who lives a house away from me would liek to setup up a wireless network between mine and his comp. The main purpose is broadband cable sharing. I have RoadRunner and get 45KBs up/~150KBs down. He lives around 70 feet (to be safe) with walls in between us. What would be the best wireless solution. What kinds of internet speed would he be getting? Thank you in advance.

Also. I'd like to keep the wireless router at my house by my computer so would it be possible to conenct my NIC with a CAT5 to the router or would I be forced to buy a wirless adapter?

[sm0x]

Alright, I know 70 feet is within spec. for wireless but I'm guessing your friend may have a problem getting a decent signal strength. I don't recommend any wireless solution, but I have a D-Link 2.4Ghz wireless router with a wireless PCI card for my desktop and wireless PCMCIA card for the laptop. For some reason I can't get a signal strength better than 75% with the PCI card and I'm about 30 feet away. I usually get 90-100% with the laptop 2 floors up. I exchanged for a new NIC but still. So it appears as if D-Link's wireless PCI NICs suck.

If your friend can get a decent link quality and signal strength he should get the same internet speeds as you.

And, no, you don't need a wireless adapter. Just a 10/100 NIC and some CAT5

Hope this helps

[Vfrjim1]

I have it working 150' between mine and my sister's house so that she can use my cable modem and she can share my MP3 collection. I HIGHLY reccomend using USB client cards, they can be moved and extended with USB extension cables with no problem. I use the Orinocco RG1000, but I use it as a bridge and use my SMC barricade as the router, the Orinocco can be used as a router but traceroutes never functioned correctly and since I already had the barricade, why not continue to use it. Placement of both AP and Client devices are critical in getting thru two walls of each house so that you do not need to use an external antenna. Read all you can so that you can make your wireless network as secure as you can, it won't be access proof, but you can make it more difficult if you turn off a few functions, many articles are on the internet, so do a few searches with Google to secure your network and good luck. Here is a good link on securing your network: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,11388,00.asp
one more link on help setting up the RG-1000:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/support/orinoco_rg1000_help.htm#setup

Jim
PS: by the way, I get 5 bars(excellent signal) at 150' away and thru my and her walls :)

[Crash893]

you could always buy a antenna for it

[AMD'er]

yea its alot to consider when tring to do so....like others have said..an extra antenna will more than likely be needed to complete this sucessfully

[Doc_Skurlock]

When I set up the wireless in my house, it was rather simple. One pc got a wireless NIC, and the laptops got pcmcia cards. The wireless network works great and was relatively simple. All you have to do is run Cat5 from your comp to the router and possibly an antennae for your neighbor. My computer is connected with Cat5, to my Linksys. I haven't had hardly any problems with Linksys and its relatively cheap too. The router cost 150 and each pc card cost about 70. The NIC was 15 or 30? Mind you, I bought all of this at Best Buy, so.....

[kaltag]

I have the linksys wrt54g wireless access point/router with there 802.11B signal booster (which works with 802.11G) and I can get well over 300 feet away before I start getting dropped signal. Plus no external antenna needed.

[xtreme404]

I had a pci adapter for my desktop and the signal strength sucked, and it was like only 40ft away or so. So I switched to the Linksys WUSB11 ver2.6 wireless usb adapter. It works awesome and gets excellent range. For a router I am using the Dlink air plus, its about $49 at best buy after rebates. Pretty good deal, runs smooth for me so far.

Good Luck!

[Crash893]

i think if you move your router to a window on the side he is on you should do fine

i went out and tested mine and i got like 200 feet ( with the linksys) out of one side of the house and like not past the siding on the other side ( it was on the side with the 200 feet)