WIRELESS UPGRADE

Blackmagic Computers received a call from a customer that said he wanted to make his house wireless. The customer stated that he lives in Traverse City and owns a large chunk of property that extends out into his back yard. In his back yard he wanted to be able to have wireless signal about a quarter mile out from the back of his house.

We arrived at his house and spoke to the customer we noticed that in deed he did have a large backyard. We knew that we were going to have to hook up a omni antenna to be able to extend the wireless signal.

The customer said that he would like the signal to be secured so that his neighbors

cant connect to it. We installed a 12dbi omni antenna on a pole 26 feet in the air. Installed a weatherproof box with a router and 1 watt amplifier. We also installed a light on the pole with a control box that would turn his light on when it was dark. We ran the lines into his house where they plugged into his Charter Communications Cable Box and 24 port switch.

We hooked up the 5 computers in the house 4 desktops, 1 being connected with a wireless card. 1 Laptop that was also set up wireless. While in the house we noticed that the customer had a Xbox 360 & Sony PS3 Gaming Console in his basement connected to a 24inch computer monitor.

He has stated that he had a Pioneer 54inch HDTV upstairs in his living room. I asked why he didnt have the 2 gaming consoles connected to his HDTV? He said that he didnt want to run wire from the basement where his cable modem box was to the upstairs living room. I advised him that we could connect the Xbox 360 and PS3 wireless so that he wouldnt have to run any network cables. He said that would be great and loved the idea of being able to play his games on a 54inch HDTV. So we connected the Xbox 360 & PS3 wirelessly.

I asked the customer if he had a media center computer to play media to his HDTV? He said no but he would love to have something like that set up. We made one of his computers a media server so that he could watch video's wirelessly to the HDTV in his living room. Not only that he also was able to play music through the media center to his home theater system he had connected to his HDTV.

After getting the networking set up and connecting his computers and gaming consoles wirelessly we went out to his backyard and tested the wireless connection. We were able to take his laptop approximately 1/4 mile out to the woodline in his back yard and not lose connectivity with the wireless router. We were able to access his network shared files on his media center and play a movie on the laptop from 1/4 mile away.

After finishing everthing up the customer stated that he would like us to come out on a later date and look at his daughters computer which he believes has viruses & or spyware on it.