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March 17th, 2014, 08:43 AM
#1
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Need Advice
Here is the situation, have a Dr. Office, the physcians see the patients with their laptops. In the wire room is a Cisco/Linksys EA4500 Router. This is located in the corner of a rectangle shape in the patient area. In the center of this is an area with lead lined walls where a xray machine used to be. My problem is when I set the wireless up gor them. he patients rooms are located all around this rectangle area and due to the lead,certain areas were dead.
I then added AP's on bothe sides to accomodate the dead areas. one AP SSID is "Name" and the other is "Name1". I was hoping this would eliminate any conflicts. All was good with XP but now with Win 7 & 8 I am running into problems. What range extender would be the best to use for the Router sso I can use it's wireless and eliminate the other SSID's? TIA
It's not the computers that keep having problems, it's the users!!
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March 17th, 2014, 07:35 PM
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March 17th, 2014, 08:53 PM
#3
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March 18th, 2014, 09:22 AM
#4
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Another option is Open-Mesh
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March 18th, 2014, 09:46 AM
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Thank you for the input but not sure if I can get this to work. Here is the drawing of the coverage. The AP's are located to the right near the ceiling and have power sockets and cat5 cable there. The signal streght there is weak at best.
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March 18th, 2014, 10:03 AM
#6
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A mesh network will solve the problem. Do some reading on Open-Mesh. It works.
Last edited by SpywareDr; March 18th, 2014 at 10:05 AM.
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March 19th, 2014, 12:35 AM
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Hmmmm not too sure if Dr's offices and patients information and clouds are too good together.
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March 19th, 2014, 08:13 AM
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Know what you mean but, they're already connected to the 'net.
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March 19th, 2014, 08:14 AM
#9
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Originally Posted by Ferrit
Hmmmm not too sure if Dr's offices and patients information and clouds are too good together.
Well. you and I agree on this, however, with the enforcement of EHR, (Electronic Health Records), there is no other choice. Is there a way to get (2) AP's to work with each other so when the laptops switch to one or the other, there is no loss in the connectivity? My understanding they used to have Dell AP's that did this. (Not familiar with this process and did not know about it.) TIA
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March 19th, 2014, 08:51 AM
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Windows computers are capable of using two separate network cards connected to two separate networks.
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March 20th, 2014, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by SpywareDr
Windows computers are capable of using two separate network cards connected to two separate networks.
These are laptops and Surface Pros.
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March 20th, 2014, 08:11 AM
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March 20th, 2014, 08:46 AM
#13
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Originally Posted by SpywareDr
Equals more expense (especialy in time with Obama Care), shortage of USB ports on the smaller devices used for mouse, and need simpler solutions not more complicated for possible problems with people who are not familiar with wireless and how it works,
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March 20th, 2014, 09:33 AM
#14
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March 20th, 2014, 11:11 AM
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Run a cat 5e cable from the router to the other side of the lead wall. Install an access point.
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