I may be getting service Wireless DSL service soon from DTN Speednet.
Basically their setup is like so, you install a medium gain,
omnidirectional antenna on your house, this ports thier signal over cable
to a PCI card located in the main or server computer. I get this part and
have no problem with it, the only problem is there are two other desktops
and one laptop I would like to get to share that signal.
Talked to Customer Service for DTN Speednet, regarding this situation,
since there is no way I'm paying $49.99 per mo. for high speed internet on
only ONE computer. Do I install a router or hub and then feed the signal
to those other computers? Would like to do this all wirelessly, of course.
The customer service rep, stated I couldn't use an 802.11b setup since that
would interfer with thier signal??? Since thier service is 802.11b already,
how could adding further equipment to expand the home network, be anything
but that standard? Wouldn't all components have to be the same standard?
I think he was just worried about splitting off all that bandwidth to the
other computers and yet I would be paying for the single signal coming into
the house(although at $49.99 per month, I think they are getting plenty)
Maybe I'm just confused, I'd could string cat 5 cable I guess, but would
like to go wireless if possible.
Adding a wireless router (wired ethernet) to the server and wifi to the
clients should be relative easy, and the a/b/g/n argument shouldn't really
apply - after all is he saying that your signal would be degraded if your
neighbour ran one as well?
The only tricky bit will be in getting the routing through the server
correctly set up -- but you can always post back here
posted on 11/7/07 at 10:52