[ale] Wireless Design Suggestions

[Geoffrey]

Save your $$$, buy two cards and let another machine be your access 
point.  There was a pretty decent article in Linux Journal regarding 
such a while back.

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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