On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:16:35 +0000 (UTC), dold@XReXXOmniX.usenet.us.com
wrote in <ejge5j$k50$1@blue.rahul.net>:

>MrBill <NoSpam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> I have 2 houses on my property and am about to set up a wireless
>> receiver in the other house. Since the Gateway and network adapter
>> will be about 75' apart through thick adobe walls, and since there is
>> another network adapter in a completely different direction, I figure
>
>How far is it to that "other" adapter? I run about 60 feet through a
>couple of sheetrock/pressedboard siding walls with one reflector and a
>normal laptop card, which gets "excellent" signal according to WinXP.

That's not terribly meaningful unless the wireless adapter is under
heavy load -- it's common for a wireless adapter to report
good-excellent signal until it actually tries to transfer data,
whereupon the signal level is downgraded to match reality.

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