Went to the beach a couple of weeks ago to hang out with the usual suspects. As an added bonus, Jeremy and I were commissioned to install equipment to provide wireless internet to the entire condo. The building has ten units, two across and five high. One of the units on the fourth floor would have the internet connection, and we needed to relay it to the rest. We were told that the building was made of concrete and aluminum studs.
With our initial plan, we would put an Airport Extreme in the 4th floor unit, and then stagger Airport Expresses on each floor as relay base stations with the intent of blanketing the building. We figured this would be overkill.
Boy were we wrong.
Turns out that the floors and the wall between the units were actually made of steel reinforced concrete. Practically no signal would make it through. Within a unit, though, no problems at all.
So we solved the problem the way you solve any technology problem: Throw more equipment at it!
We ended up putting one in each unit in a bedroom so they were no more than the width of the concrete wall apart and the height of a floor apart. No problems after that!
So now the beach has wireless internet. Because it has wireless internet, Papa Joe saw it fit to get a TiVo, and it has truly become paradise.
