[ale] Wireless Design Suggestions

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Excellent point.  I've done some esoteric things to get cat5 from my 
basement to my 2nd floor.  It took probably twice as much cable, but I'm 
still married. :)

Robert, what say you share the site layout and see if we can come up 
with a wired solution that's acceptable?  After all, more geeks then you 
can shake a stick (of memory) at on this list, someone might see 
something you didn't consider...


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Wireless networking absolutely SUCKS!!!
> 
> Slow. Expensive. Slow. SLow. SLOw. SLOW!
> 
> Unless you drop the $$$$$ for 802.11a which still runs a single
> connection only at half the speed of a crappy wired connection. 
> 
> Dropping a cat5e line between floors is not _that_ difficult. It's also
> cheap. For the cost of a decent AP, you can wire the entire house with
> cat5e. 8 port 100BaseT switches can be had for $40.
> 
> Besides, how much microwave radiation does your spouse want bouncing
> through her? Or you for that matter? Be realistic. How long can the
> laptop run not plugged into the wall?  Do you really want to reduce the
> network speed in your house to that of a dialup line? Remember, unless
> you get the latest stuff (not all supported in Linux), wireless is not a
> full duplex transmission. And don't use the cordless phone while you are
> downloading.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 13:38, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>>  Ok, looks like we're finally getting a house next month.  At any rate,
>>it's a 2 story and my server room will be upstairs but I'll need to hook
>>up 3 machines downstairs.  I've got the ports on my 2 switches to run a
>>cable but my wife has pretty much infomred me I'll be sleeping on the
>>garage floor if I do it.
>>
>>  I'm thinking of going to Costco and getting their netger wireless kit
>>for $150 which has an access point and a card.  I can then put the
>>single card into a dedicated server in the server room and the access
>>point in my living room.  That way the 3 machines downstairs can use
>>their switch to uplink to the AP.  2 of the machines are dual boot so I
>>don't want to use them as a router.  The 3rd is a laptop which will be
>>traveling.
>>
>>  The server upstairs will be running 192.168.1/24 off the wireless card
>>and be using mac filtering for starters and then going from there as I
>>learn how to tighten it down more.
>>
>>  I'm not worried about anyone stealing BW from me as it'll be very easy
>>to see them due to geography.  As per neighbors, I've got my machines
>>locked up pretty tight, I think they may be able to print to my printer
>>is all for now.
>>
>>Thoughts, theories, suggestions, etc?
>>
>>  Robert
>>
>>
>>
>>:wq!
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
>>                               
>>DISCLAIMER:
>>      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>>FYI:
>> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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