Cable-less access point?

[Morten Skyt]

Hi everyone,

I have a little theoretical question that needs answering.

I'm trying to set up a wireless network, a quite big one. Therefore I
figured that I needed some access points to enforce the signal.
However, I believe that most access points cannot connect directly to
each other. You need to connect the accesspoint to a cabled network.

This is not what I want. I want the accesspoints to connect to
eachother without any cabling at all... Like, ad-hoc networks.

I have made a drawing to help showing exactly what I mean:
http://skyt.xgd.dk/images/Billeder%20af%20computere/t-wireless.gif

Consider the big boxes for houses and the coloured small circles for
access-points. The circle-lines all over the picture, is the
network-signals strength (they are kind-a elipse-shaped as the
antennas points in these directions, providing stronger signals in
specific directions).


I have been scouting different manuals for different access points,
but it seems to be impossible to make a setup like I want (and no,
cabling is NOT an option).


Anybody has any suggestions? What I seek is an access point (or a few
access points) with this ability to go totally wireless.

[Fixer]

another way to go might be to perhaps wait a few months until the new "N"
mode wifi arrives which will give a wider coverage Belkin already have pre N
out to market in local PC World
"Morten Skyt" <skyt@klasen.dk> wrote in message
news:f52ed1ec.0501220635.34e755fb@posting.google.com... Hi everyone, I have a little theoretical question that needs answering. I'm trying to set up a wireless network, a quite big one. Therefore I figured that I needed some access points to enforce the signal. However, I believe that most access points cannot connect directly to each other. You need to connect the accesspoint to a cabled network. This is not what I want. I want the accesspoints to connect to eachother without any cabling at all... Like, ad-hoc networks. I have made a drawing to help showing exactly what I mean: http://skyt.xgd.dk/images/Billeder%20af%20computere/t-wireless.gif Consider the big boxes for houses and the coloured small circles for access-points. The circle-lines all over the picture, is the network-signals strength (they are kind-a elipse-shaped as the antennas points in these directions, providing stronger signals in specific directions). I have been scouting different manuals for different access points, but it seems to be impossible to make a setup like I want (and no, cabling is NOT an option). Anybody has any suggestions? What I seek is an access point (or a few access points) with this ability to go totally wireless.

[Yousuf Khan]

Morten Skyt wrote: Hi everyone, I have a little theoretical question that needs answering. I'm trying to set up a wireless network, a quite big one. Therefore I figured that I needed some access points to enforce the signal. However, I believe that most access points cannot connect directly to each other. You need to connect the accesspoint to a cabled network. This is not what I want. I want the accesspoints to connect to eachother without any cabling at all... Like, ad-hoc networks.


Why not a single access point/router, connected up to a signal booster?
An omnidirectional booster antenna should be able to increase the range
by about two, while a directional antenna would probably be able to go
several kilometers.

Yousuf Khan

[Morten Skyt]

Hi,

Well thanks a lot to both of you - now I have something to seek into
:-)

Meanwhile, I found what I was searching for. It seems like the keyword
I was missing, was "repeater". For instance, here's a repeater-from
linksys:

http://linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=629&scid=38

I'll look into your solutions, but as it's a relatively small group of
houses that needs to be connected, a low-price solution like the above
is probably what I'll end up with.


Thanks a lot!
/Morten Skyt