Re: All those walls

"Peabody" <waybackNO784SPAM44@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| I'm going to need to communicate over a fairly short distance - a
| mximum of 50 feet as the crow flies, but the signal will have to go
| through a total of seven walls to get to the back porch. The house
| was built in 1972, so I assume it's just standard 2x4 studs and
| wallboard.
|
| I'm looking at a Toshiba E35-S2171 laptop which contains an Atheros
| card, and either the regular or HP Buffalo router. Will either of
| the Buffalo routers work in that situation? If they both are likely
| to work, I'd just as soon get the regular router and save a few
| bucks, if that sounds reasonable.

Wallboard in the 70s was beginning to use metal foil for energy efficiency.
If you have foil backed wallboard and it's installed correclty you're likely
S.O.L. direct RF connection.