My family is now up to two PowerBook G4's and are needing a way to wirelessanize the entire house.
The house has three floors and is rather large. One of the floors includes the basement, which is finished, and should therefore be wireless. The house is a U shape without the roundness, it's essentially like this: |__| with less symmetry (and it's obviously a little bigger than it is on the screen).
Currently, there is one Airport Extreme base station on the third floor of the east wing. It covers about half of the house with good reception upstairs, and decent reception on the main floor, however with declining reception in the basement which sometimes hits 0.
The west wing of the house, and the portion of the front of the house are totally uncovered by the base station currently in place. Also of note, there is a printer (mine) plugged into the base station which is in my room.
My Dad would like to cover the house entirely, and to me it makes sense then that we would pick up either another AExtreme or a (2?) AExpress base stations. Airtunes really doesn't concern me, but I'd like to have a base station I can take with me to my grandfather's apartment in New Jersey, etc.
As far as plugging base stations in, our cable modem and router are in the basement, and we can hook up to four rooms in to it. One of them has to be my mother's office, as she has a desktop and we aren't going to put it on the wireless network. The other must be my father's office, because his G5 is there. That leaves us with two ports to which we can connect base stations.
Here is the riddle for you:
How can I cover the house spending around $200 or so? Bare in mind, one base station, preferably an Airport Express, must be in my room and have the printer I use for school plugged in to it. Also, what is the difference in quality between an AEXTREME and an AEXPRESS?
It is entirely possible that I missed something in this thread or do not correctly understand how the base stations work, etc. I do not know much about wireless networking, I'm much more knowledgeable in the consumer electronics department. Please excuse technical mistakes I've made, as the reason I'm asking for help is that I indeed do NOT know what I'm doing.
Thanks,
Sam
The house has three floors and is rather large. One of the floors includes the basement, which is finished, and should therefore be wireless. The house is a U shape without the roundness, it's essentially like this: |__| with less symmetry (and it's obviously a little bigger than it is on the screen).
Currently, there is one Airport Extreme base station on the third floor of the east wing. It covers about half of the house with good reception upstairs, and decent reception on the main floor, however with declining reception in the basement which sometimes hits 0.
The west wing of the house, and the portion of the front of the house are totally uncovered by the base station currently in place. Also of note, there is a printer (mine) plugged into the base station which is in my room.
My Dad would like to cover the house entirely, and to me it makes sense then that we would pick up either another AExtreme or a (2?) AExpress base stations. Airtunes really doesn't concern me, but I'd like to have a base station I can take with me to my grandfather's apartment in New Jersey, etc.
As far as plugging base stations in, our cable modem and router are in the basement, and we can hook up to four rooms in to it. One of them has to be my mother's office, as she has a desktop and we aren't going to put it on the wireless network. The other must be my father's office, because his G5 is there. That leaves us with two ports to which we can connect base stations.
Here is the riddle for you:
How can I cover the house spending around $200 or so? Bare in mind, one base station, preferably an Airport Express, must be in my room and have the printer I use for school plugged in to it. Also, what is the difference in quality between an AEXTREME and an AEXPRESS?
It is entirely possible that I missed something in this thread or do not correctly understand how the base stations work, etc. I do not know much about wireless networking, I'm much more knowledgeable in the consumer electronics department. Please excuse technical mistakes I've made, as the reason I'm asking for help is that I indeed do NOT know what I'm doing.
Thanks,
Sam
