dumb wireless connection question

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Harry G wrote:
>> Does wireless go through the floors of a house well?  My daughter has a 
>> PC in the basement, and the router will be on the 2nd floor, so it has 
>> to travel through 2 wood framed floors almost straight down, approx. 23 
>> feet.
>
>It might work if you're lucky.  The only way to find out for sure is to 
>try it.

The biggest question is whether there's anything like aluminum
wrapped insulation or other conductive materials in the floors
that will affect the signal.  Metal studs probably wouldn't be a
problem in walls, but wire in plaster could well be.

Bill
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