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Subject: A bit Off Topic: Which WAP to go for?
Message-ID: <E1My2wD-0007G6-Pa@b.painless.aaisp.net.uk>

Sorry if this isn't OS/2 related - I'm happy to take it offline if 
that's a problem.

I've been asked by a client to install a Wireless Access Point.  
He has a shop which has a LAN and Internet access, and he 
rents out the flat ("apartment") above it, and wants to 
provide WiFi Internet access to his tenants.

Having been out of WiFi for a while I'm out of touch with the 
technology, and browsing a local shop shows a bewildering 
collection of "standards"!  There were just A, B and G when I 
last looked, and everyone ignored A, now there seem to be 
G+, N, N+, N Rangemax, and others.

Without knowing what the tenants are going to have in their 
machines, which one should I be going for?  The client isn't 
the "Money no object" type (are they ever? :-) so just 
getting the best there is won't be necessarily a Good Thing!

The geography is that the WAP will probably be in the shop, 
and there's a plaster ceiling/wooden floor between them.  
The WAP may have to be installed underneath a counter or 
in a cupboard in the shop - not ideal, I know!

So, what is the current thinking on which "standard" to go 
for?  (N seems to be a draft only from what it says on the 
boxes).

Is there a device or a manufacturer that people are happy to 
recommend?  Bear in mind that inter-brand operability, 
something the manufacturers seem keen to discourage, is a 
definite requirement as there's no telling what equipment (or 
operating system) will be used in the client machines.

Oh, and there's a Starbucks next door with free WiFi (I know, 
he could just tell them to use that, but I don't think they'd be 
happy!) so preventing interference is going to be an issue.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
The H2Org
http://www.ecomstation.co.uk