Setting up Wireless Access for a Motel

Hi. I'm working on building a wireless network for a friend's motel. Take a look at the layout here:

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The motel has about 10 rooms on each side. The home ands business double as one, and that's where the internet connection is setup. The problem is, the motel rooms are made of solid material, especailly concrete. There probably won't be more than 10 guests connected at one time. The main connection will be upgraded to a 50Mbps downstream, and 2Mbps upstream. The modem will be connected to a wireless N router. The router will be placed at the front of the house/business. I was thinking of buying a high powered omnidirectional outdoor antenna that will connect to the router. I don't know how many access points I will need. I was thinking of just setting up some wireless repeaters, but over that distance the signal may deteriorate too much for them to have any affect. Do WAPs have to be hard wired? If so, I was thinking of hard wiring two of the WAPS from the router and placing them inside the first room on each side of the motel. Then using repeaters in every third room or so. Can you connect a WAP to a WAP?
I'm also thinking of having some sort of management software for all the connections that will limit the bandwidth, etc. Perhaps use an existing desktop computer and turn it into a server for all this.

What do you guys think? How should I go about setting everything up? What hardware would I need and what brand should I go with? How much would do you guys estimate the price would come to?


Thanks in advance.

You will want to use a mesh type wireless network where wireless nodes are interconnected to one another and find the best route to the gateway automatically. You can start with open-mesh.com... they are a free service that allows you to monitor the entire network from any web browser.

If you need advanced help, my company specializes in difficult implementations within steel and concrete structures. We have enabled wifi on just about every inch of several pre-WWII buildings.

Here's a bit about our software offering incase you have the need to meter & monitor access by device or username...


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