Mostly our home use wifi, wifi router, or ADSL wifi router are just a small box with one or two antenna, and the longer the better signal for the antenna.
Normally the brand at the market here will be DLINK, LINKSYS, AZTECH…. For better brand, i will recomended go for 3COM, NETGEAR, BELKIN…. but the price sure will be higher.
From my previous post: Wifi Installation. I have mention before a new WIFI service provider are comming in for Wifi Installation. During the WIFI installation and testing, i have taken some screen shoot on current WIFI service provider’s equiptment, just as a record for my future use. Below are my company current WIFI service provider equipment, a out door AP. The Access Point(AP) are very big, to ensure the signal can boardcast to the whole building.
There are 4 pair of AP. Located around the 4 corner of the building. Picture above and below consider 1 pair each….
The signal need to cover the whole building which is 13 floor, from 5th floor to 19th floor (exclude 13th and 14th floor)
The worst thing of this company is they are using indoor equipt to become outdoor equiptment. Due to the sun light, the box of equiptment will be hot and hang sometime, the performance won’t be so good.
Let see what is inside this box, a switch, AP and a buster (stronger the power for the signal)
hey.. Belkin cheap cheap nia la.. about RM150 already got.. i thought linksys is very expensivve…. by the way.. where u working??? if u dun mind to tell…
by the way…. i am going to buy one soon. any recomendations IT officer???
haha…i not so sure about the price, just know that belkin is not bad quality…
i also plan to buy a wifi router, just for playing my self, i will go for linksys, may be the model at above…around RM199 at PC fair…
The wires are very messy. Like they’re all cramped inside.
The company is using indoor equipment for outdoor equipment? So won’t the equipment be able to withstand outside conditions?
what about wireless n + booster antenna?
å®èŒ¹> ya..the wire are messy…i really dono wic 1 is wic 1..need to carefull identify… they putting indoor equiptment at out door, so that the performance drop…some time sun heat..the device will hang…
Nic> So far i did not see Wireless N before… if N+ booster antenna…i think opesite few building also can come my company buy WIFI prepaid card…hahahaha…
this kind of wifi implementation is totally new to me. Use indoor equipment for outdoor use. the lifespan sure shorten few times.
Personally, I support linksys. their signal is good and can crack their firmware too. very powerful router.
im using the wrt54g, that would be a good choice dude. u take off its cover and flashed up an alternative linux firmware , put it on a new weather shielded container and its as good as super expensive wifi router . ohh dont forget to change the antenna tooo
wow…. it really cool, i also wanna to make 1 my self… ok, great, i going to research on wrt54g with linux firmware
Guess what, I sometimes can see CITITEL wifi on my pc, can see but cannot connect one. too bad.
Nicholas > Now cititel no longer using this any more, they change to another device( http://blog.icalvyn.com/wifi-installation/ ), strong for internal area, out site still can detect, sitting on mamak opesite also can detect