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Wireless Router advice please

  • 09-09-2010 8:59pm
    #1
    AnonEmous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    Hi all, I have a specific question and hope one of you can help me out. The primary school I work in is looking to buy a wireless router. However I am unsure if the 'bog standard' variety will work as the walls are all solid concrete and the network is based in the office at one end of the school and the router would need to transmit to all classroom upstairs and down, up to approx 20-30m away.
    Can anyone recommend a router powerful enough? Cost is, as always, an issue.
    Thanks.


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  • #2
    trebor28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    its quite hard to say on what little evidence you have given.

    how new is the school? if its fairly recent then the standard router should be able to go through a good few walls.

    if its an old school with big thick walls it will barely go through one wall.

    is the school wired for network connections already? if it was you might be able to put a router in the middle room to get better coverage for the school.

    im no expert, but hope this helps.


  • #3
    dnme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,429 ✭✭✭dnme


    AnonEmous wrote: »
    Hi all, I have a specific question and hope one of you can help me out. The primary school I work in is looking to buy a wireless router. However I am unsure if the 'bog standard' variety will work as the walls are all solid concrete and the network is based in the office at one end of the school and the router would need to transmit to all classroom upstairs and down, up to approx 20-30m away.
    Can anyone recommend a router powerful enough? Cost is, as always, an issue.
    Thanks.

    Anon where is school based?


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Netgear and Belkin both do routers which are N or N+ strenght.
    They retail around 100 Euro but are very powerful.

    A friend who has a B&B in an old building (walls were 4FT thick in places) needed one this week and I got one (This one) for him from a PCworld store. Placed it in his attic.
    Worked grand downwards 3 floors and even the signal could be got in his basement.


  • #5
    jpl888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭jpl888


    As a bit of insurance if you purchase a router that supports WDS mode in DD-WRT you will be able to chain access points together, increasing coverage if needed.

    FYI - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WDS_Linked_router_network

    Linksys seem to be pretty good quality these days, not so happy with Belkin they don't seem to be very flexible. I don't know about Netgear, although they seem to be reasonably good. I wouldn't have too many qualms purchasing one.

    Hope this helps.


  • #6
    AnonEmous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭AnonEmous


    Thanks for all the replies. Now I have a better idea of what might meet our needs. JPL888 your suggestion of adding access points sounds like the ideal solution to my problem. Thanks again.


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  • #7
    itmonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭itmonkey


    jpl888 wrote: »
    As a bit of insurance if you purchase a router that supports WDS mode in DD-WRT you will be able to chain access points together, increasing coverage if needed.

    FYI - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WDS_Linked_router_network

    Linksys seem to be pretty good quality these days, not so happy with Belkin they don't seem to be very flexible. I don't know about Netgear, although they seem to be reasonably good. I wouldn't have too many qualms purchasing one.

    Hope this helps.

    I'll second the above. A LinkSys router modded to run DD-WRT is the Router for you. You can even increase the signal strength of the router to extend it's range. Be careful if you do this though as you can burn the board out.


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