Re: how to set up a wireless network?

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Friday 03 August 2007, Serena Cantor wrote:
> first, I consider wireless LAN, but I learn that wireless can't
> connect computers in different rooms. From Wireless-howto:
>
> "The most important thing in Wireless communications is the line of
>   sight clear: you MUST SEE (with eyes or with a binocular) the
> antenna from the other end or you can have (at most) a little tree
> between them."

Not literally true.  I have a wifi router in my computer room and the 
Squeezebox I have on my porch connects to it through 2 other rooms and 
a brick wall.

Bluetooth will not do the kind of networking you seem to want, but you 
can find out more about that with Google.

Hal