wifi topology possibility??? repeating madness

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is it possible to have the following setup and remain a strong connection?

router wired to a bridge > repeater wirelessly coneected to bridge and ANOTHER repeater (wirelessly) and the second repeater connected wirelessly to the workstation?

This technique maybe used as the distance is great and only method i can think of.

any other suggests please advise.

Thanks
 
bitslice said:
what are the constaints here, are you in different buildings or something ?

would a bigger aerial help ?


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no bigger aerial wouldnt help its across a building basically quiet far distances. It's okay i have resolved the issue. it is possible to add another AP and have that working in repeating mode. It's just a matter of adding it to thet current network and assigning an IP to it whilst inputting the MAC address of its parent which is the previous repeater. leaving the child field empty. then on the prevous repeater the 1st one having the child mac address of the 3rd repeater. not too confusing is it! hehe its done now.

thanks anyway
 
heh, I was just about to post a possible diagram as I wasn't sure of the number of repeaters. :-)

AFAIK repeaters are OK, but I think slow the link down.

For long distances I've used fibre, and I was surprised how cheap it was.

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bitslice said:
heh, I was just about to post a possible diagram as I wasn't sure of the number of repeaters. :-)

AFAIK repeaters are OK, but I think slow the link down.

For long distances I've used fibre, and I was surprised how cheap it was.

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fibre...but it has to be laid down which is why i opted for wireless. so maybe another suggestion. you can have as many repeaters on a network as you like apprently.
 
Lex said:
...you can have as many repeaters on a network as you like apprently.
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The Ethernet standard assumes it will take roughly 50 microseconds for a signal to reach its destination, so I think you are limited.

AFAIK you can only have 4 wired repeaters, so I imagine there would be problems with multiple AP's

The fibre just got chucked in the roof void, easy job

Curiosityx said:
...laser
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yeh, why not, drill a small hole in each wall, that could work :-)
shame the beam isn't visible, would look great.



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bitslice said:
yeh, why not, drill a small hole in each wall, that could work :-)
shame the beam isn't visible, would look great.
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Where in the intial post does it mention that it has to pass through walls, it sounds like a site to site connection, wireless wouldnt perform well hence a laser link.
 
Curiosityx said:
Where in the intial post does it mention that it has to pass through walls, it sounds like a site to site connection, wireless wouldnt perform well hence a laser link.
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it was in a later post

Lex said:
...no bigger aerial wouldnt help its across a building basically quiet far distances..
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so I'm assuming the building is a pretty big one
 
just to add some clarity as i never mentioned any obsticles other than the distance so just to confirm that the problem is that there are obsticles walls etc so there is no room for laser technology unfortunatley. there is "no line of site"

any other suggestions?
 
tbh, the wireless repeater thing is a kludge.
I'd reckon you'd be looking at a lot of application timeouts trying to run anything over it.

fibre is fit and forget

Cat5e is fit and forget

laser is fit and forget,
stick it on a big pole if there is a wall in the way

simple point to point wireless is OK, but only if you have to.


as we would all probably use them in the order above, how about telling us why none of these solutions is suitable ?


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(edit - I guess not, as he's off on a new thread.... )





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