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82 Part II: Making Plans Table 4-1 How Common Household Items Affect a Wi-Fi Signal Degree of Obstruction Attenuation Example Open space Low Backyard Wood Low Inner wall; door; floor Plaster Low Inner wall (older plaster has a lower degree of attenuation than newer plaster) Synthetic Low Partitions; home theater treatments materials Cinder block Low Inner wall; outer wall Asbestos Low Ceiling (older buildings) Glass Low Nontinted window Wire mesh Medium Door; window in glass Metal tinted Medium Tinted window glass Body Medium Groupings of people (dinner table) Water Medium Damp wood; aquarium; in-home water treatments Bricks Medium Inner wall; outer wall; floor Marble Medium Inner wall; outer wall; floor Ceramic (metal High Ceramic tile; ceiling; floor content or backing) Paper High Stack of paper stock, such as newspaper piles Concrete High Floor; outer wall; support pillar Bulletproof High Windows; door glass Silvering Very high Mirror Metal Very high Inner wall; air conditioning; filing cabinets; reinforced concrete walls and floors
You may want to consider reading Chapter 18 on troubleshooting before you finish your planning. Some good tips in that chapter talk about setting up and tweaking your network. Adding printers Chapter 4: Planning a Wireless Home Network In addition to connecting your computers, you may want to connect your printers to the network. Next to sharing an Internet connection, printer sharing is perhaps the biggest cost-saving reason for building a network of home computers. Rather than buy a printer for every PC, everyone in the house can share one printer. Or maybe you have one color inkjet printer and one black-and-white laser printer. If both printers are connected to the network, The shape of the radio signal transmitted to the rooms in your home is determined by the type of antenna you have attached to the AP. The standard antenna on any AP is an omnidirectional antenna, which broadcasts its signal in a spherical shape. The signal pattern that radiates from a typical omnidirectional dipole antenna is shaped like a fat doughnut with a tiny hole in the middle. The hole is directly above and below the antenna. The signal goes from the antenna to the floor above and the floor below, as well as to the floor on which the AP is located. If your house has multiple floors, try putting your AP on the second floor first. Most AP manufacturers claim a range of 200 feet indoors (at 74 Mbps for 802.11n and 54 Mbps for 802.11g). To be conservative, assume a range of 80 feet laterally and one floor above and below the AP. Keep in mind that the signal at the edges of the “doughnut” and on the floors below or above the AP are weaker than the signal nearer the center and on the same floor as the AP. Because of this signal pattern, you should try to place the AP as close to the center of your The RF doughnut house as is practically possible. Use a drawing of your house plan to locate the center of the house. This spot is your first trial AP location. Draw a circle with an 80-foot radius on your house plan, with the trial AP location as the center of the circle. If your entire house falls inside the circle, one AP will probably do the job. Conversely, if some portion of the house is outside the circle, coverage may be weaker in that area. You need to experiment to determine whether you get an adequate signal there. If you determine that one AP will not cover your house, you need to decide how best to place two APs (or even three, if necessary). The design of your house determines the best placement. For a one-level design, start at one end of the house and determine the best location for an 80-foot radius circle that covers all the way to the walls. The center of this circle is the location of the first AP. Then move toward the other end of the house, drawing 80-foot radius circles until the house is covered. The center of each circle is a trial location of an AP. If possible, don’t leave any area in the house uncovered. 83
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