Or best of all, buy yourself some Cat6 and wire the connection.
I seriously hate wireless. I wish it had never been invented. Before there was such a thing, there was exactly one way to do networking: by using some sort of physical connection between the machines. It sometimes was time-consuming and expensive, but it was stable, fast, dependable, and usually permanent. On difficult runs I would add a few extra cables, the price of the cable itself generally being trivial compared to that of the labor to run it. The extras were for future expansion or for those fairly infrequent cases when corrosion, construction, etc. caused a cable to go dark after installation.
I still try to encourage clients to go with Ethernet (or fiber) because it's more dependable and more secure. When residential clients refuse to run wires and insist on wireless, I will assist them, but I also inform them of all the pitfalls of wireless and tell them that any future calls when, not if, the wireless network flakes out for no apparent reason, will be billable.
For business clients, I simply decline most wireless networking jobs. Why? Because with businesses, a loss of connectivity usually means an unscheduled and inconvenient emergency call (which the client is often reluctant to pay for because they feel it's my fault) when the network goes down for any of the myriad reasons that wireless networks can go down. And they go down often.
Yes, wired networks can also go down, but we're talking about relative frequency here. The 2.4 GHz band is essentially unregulated. As long as the power is kept under a certain level (200 mW, IIRC), pretty much anyone can use 2.4 for anything, so interference is always an issue and can appear well after the network is set up because of some foreign wireless device that is placed in service by the client or a neighbor.
There are also issues with clients (as in machines) losing the PSKs for no apparent reason, and clients (as in people) breaking them when they try to troubleshoot problems themselves. Most commonly, an unrelated Internet outage leads to a call to their Internet provider, whose support tech tells them to "press and hold the reset button on the router," thus resetting it to its defaults, resetting the SSID, disabling the security, and destroying the network. Because I disable the ability to connect to unsecured networks on the client adapters for security reasons, the entire network goes dark until I can get there to reprogram the router or try to find someone onsite who has enough common sense that I can assist them by phone.
In addition, 2.4 is a multiple of 60, which is the frequency of house current in the U.S., so ordinary electrical appliances that draw high current can create harmonics that interfere with wireless network devices. I once had a call a from residential client who complained that the connection went down every night at about the same time, and traced it to a family member using a 1000-watt hair drier at that time every night.
The point is that wireless networking is inherently flaky. If you use it, understand that there are many, many things that can interfere with it, so it will seldom be as stable and dependable as a wired network. If what you want is stability, security, and dependability, go with wires.
Rich
