"Aaron Leonard" <Aaron@Cisco.COM> wrote in message
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> On 22 Nov 2006 00:54:49 -0800, OldManChild@gmail.com wrote:
>
> ~ Hi,
> ~ I'm deploying a Wireless Network in a newly built Hotel. Each floor has
> ~ 26 rooms and all the walls are 6inches of cast concrete
> ~ I'm considering using a Cisco Aironet 1240AG on each floor in
> ~ combination with an amplifier and External Antennae from
> ~ www.hyperlinktech.com.
> ~ Do any of you have prior experience with such a deployment and do you
> ~ have any advice/suggestions? Would really appreciate it?
> ~ Thanks in advance
>
> Probably the only way to make this work, with just one AP per floor, would
> be to use leaky coax for your antenna ... snake the leaky coax above all
> the rooms. This would not be Cisco TAC supported, RF-wise (we only
support
> Cisco brand antennas), but it might work.
>
> We would prefer that you mount an AP above each room ;)

Your idea of the leaky cable is sound, but one needs to remember that this
solution
also comes at the cost of the leaky cable being kind of lossy, hence more
power will need to be transmitted. In the cellular world we use
bidirectional amps for this purpose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aaron