A wireless network router… with fricken’ laser beams attached 🙂

I’m thinking I might eventually buy a couple of Apple Airport Express devices and use them as range extenders. They are small, relatively inexpensive (about $100), and … well, like all the other Apple stuff I’ve absorbed into my collective recently, I expect they’d just work.

Currently, one of my hubs sits in the living room, the other in my office: the living room hub is 5 GHz wide spectrum 802.11n only- that increases speed significantly at the cost of range, but a single wall kills even the longer-range 2.4 GHz signal. So long as there are no walls in the way (I.E.: I’m in my office, or in the living room/kitchen), I get good access. This is “working as expected” if you ask any wireless networking technical expert, but it is a far cry from the consumer expectation of plugging in one access point and covering their entire living space.