On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 02:01, Claude Jones wrote:
On Sun January 29 2006 2:54 am, Claude Jones wrote:
> Topology is: Wireless broadband comes into my house through radio; radio
> has a LAN port which connects to my WAN nic; my LAN nic is connected to a
> D-Link G700AP - various PC's throughout my house connect via WIFI to this
> AP, and all works well.
Additional detail: the box that my broadband is connected to is an FC4 box.
It's acting as router and doing DHCP for the LAN. The machines on the LAN are
all Windows boxes, though slowly being changed over to Linux. That's why I
need to dump the Microsoft USB WIFI nic.
The home combo router/ap/switch boxes are so cheap these
days that it is probably not worth the effort to use
anything else. In fact if you need a second access
point the cheapest way to do it may be to get a
pair of routers, connect by ethernet on the switch
side, and disable the WAN side of the 2nd unit.
If you shop for closeouts/rebates you might find
them for around $20.
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Les Mikesell
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