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To: POB who wrote (121752)	7/18/2002 1:46:13 PM
From: nnillionaire	Respond to of 152472

My Linksys Wireless AP + cable router is located in my office at one end of the 19 year old house. Wife's study is 2 1/2 floors down at the other end of the house. Her laptop uses a Linksys PCMCIA card for wireless reception. She consistently connects from her study at 2Mbps (probably 70 feet away through 2 1/2 floors, and a few at least four walls.) While 2Mbps is not the 11Mbps maximum wireless speed, it is still much faster than even a really good dialup connection, and connection speed increases the closer the laptop is located to the wireless router. I can take my laptop outside into the yard and maintain a connection for quite a distance from the house. I regularly use it on the patio. Clearly, I get higher performance of the wireless router than you have described. Mine is one of the older Linksys BEFW11S4 units, but I have regularly upgraded the firmware. Could your plaster walls have layers of old lead based paint that would degrade wireless performance? Just a thought nnil