Recommendations for a wireless setup at a hotel

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Fred Weston wrote:
> Hi All,
> A friend of mine manages a hotel here in Daytona that wants to put
> some sort of Internet in the rooms before the summer rush gets going.
> Most of the big commercial places that specialize in that sort of
> thing want way too much money and wouldn't be able to do anything for
> a month or two, so we came up with a plan to do it ourselves.
>
> Basically, it's a small 3 story hotel and I think we can do it with 2
> access points (they have an old Linksys router in the office that
> covers about 50% of the rooms, but the signal is intermittent in some
> places).
>
> We came up with this list of parts we'll need
> (http://fredwick.com/misc/wireless.htm) and I was hoping to get some
> feedback as to whether we've left anything obvious off the list.  One
> thing I wasn't sure about is lightning arrestors.  I figured we would
> probably be okay without them since we're only planning on using small
> 12" omnis, coupled with the fact that there are much taller (5-10
> stories) hotels on both sides.  Also, we are not planning on mounting
> anything on the roof, instead we are going to mount the antennas about
> half way up the side of the building with a 6-8" standoff.
>
> Thanks!
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looks good to me. give it a try.
George