Wireless Networking!

[CyberGenX 0]

I have to set up a wireless network for a home. Here is the scenario.

 

1) 2 Machines in 2 different rooms about 50Ft apart.

2) No line of site between either rooms.

3) Cable modem in one of the rooms to be connected.

 

They have a cable modem in 1 room/home office and want to split it to the other room 50 ft away.

 

I cannot run any cable, it has to be wireless.

 

I need suggestions for cheap/stable/reliable wireless router and wireless cards.

 

Also ideas on anything that may get in the way or hinder this project.

[Uykucu 0]

well there is nothing to hinder it, unless em radiation in the building is extremely high (Like having a GSM Transmitter next door or top of the building.

I presume you are aware, Wireless Lan and cheap are not words used in conjunction generally.

Another thing, you know speed is 11Mbps.

[Uykucu 0]

3COM 11MBPS WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT 2000 - 3CRWE20096A-E1 (not sure about the model No. Retails about £130+VAT (US ~200)

 

Supports 128 users. nice versatile machine. with 3Com's good quality and support comes with necessary cables etc.

 

Wireless PCI Cards are ranging from £60 to £150 (US 100- 250)

3com, USR, Xircom, Intel everybody makes them I prefer 3Com's for the sake of supplier/reliability/special prices on bulk but it is up to you really.

[CyberGenX 0]

Does this work on Radio Frequency? Do the NICs have to see the Router?

[Uykucu 0]

Yep....

802.11b protocols all the way.

and no you can not do it without a wireless access point.

The way it works is point to multi point broadcast @2.4 Ghz

 

You can't just stick 2 wireless Nic's and have a network, what would control data transmission there is only 1 freq to work with...

[DosFreak 2]

Wireless NICS do not requires an AP. They can run in AD-Hoc mode. This can work with multiple wireless NICS also. Obviously this is not recommended for many computers since they'll all be broadcasting to each other and operating in essentially peer-to-peer mode but it'll still work. Heck, it may work fine in his case depending on the makeup of his walls. If no concrete it would work fine. Still I'd recommend using an wirelesll Cable/Router and then stick a wireless NIC in the remote computer and run it in infrastructure mode. The Wireless Cable/Router would plug into your cable connection and offer you NAT and other such goodies.

[Uykucu 0]

I had tried this with 3Com's when they first come out, despite it said it is not possible.

Well i couldn't make it work. But i take your word for it DosFreak.

[clutch 1]

Yep, many wireless NICs can work in P2P mode, but they have to be configured as such. I have an Orinoco (Lucent) NIC in my iPAQ and it uses my WAP for our network here, but can pick up the other wireless NIC from a friend's iPAQ when he has his Linksys NIC in it. I haven't had a need to transfer anything between them yet, so I don't know how it works with handhelds but it should be similar to PCs, you just select the network that you want to be on and away you go (assuming you configured it properly ).

[CyberGenX 0]

Thank all.