[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Damon L. Chesser]

Ahhh.  Makes sense.

On 09/03/2015 12:14 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> Set the wireless interface into AP mode and plug the wired interface 
> into an uplink port on my switch. Plus, you know, some iptables rules.
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com 
> <mailto:damon at damtek.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am missing something, how are you going to use a NUC as your
>     router? Dongles?
>
>
>     On 09/02/2015 04:36 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>>     http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Next-Unit-Computing-NUC5i3RYK/dp/B00S1ISFOQ
>>
>>     Costs just about as much as a decent 802.11ac consumer router. As
>>     far as I can tell, the wireless chipset support "AP Mode" in
>>     Linux. I'd probably get a USB ethernet adapter to connect it to
>>     my external network, though. I'd use the on-board ethernet for my
>>     internal network.
>>
>>     Yeah, I'm thinking this might just be done by the end of the year
>>     in my house. I'm liking this plan a lot. Plus, I'd actually be
>>     able to save my bandwidth logs instead of losing them every time
>>     my router reboots.
>>
>>     On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:13 PM, James Sumners
>>     <james.sumners at gmail.com <mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Then maybe Arduino will get an 802.11ac shield at some point
>>         (already has several b/g/n). Or maybe I'll skip all of that
>>         shenanigans and go straight for a
>>         http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
>>
>>         On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Solomon Peachy
>>         <pizza at shaftnet.org <mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org>> wrote:
>>
>>             On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:33PM -0400, James Sumners
>>             wrote:
>>             > I was already thinking of building a router from a
>>             Raspberry Pi, and this
>>             > news just solidifies it. Hopefully there is an 802.11c
>>             card available for
>>             > it that will do monitor mode. If not, maybe soon?
>>
>>             The RPi is a poor choice, because it only has a single
>>             USB port that's
>>             not much of a performer in its own right.  (All user
>>             visible ports plus
>>             the ethernet port are connected via an internal hub)
>>
>>             (I tried to use a RPi as a hotspot for a camper, and the
>>             USB performance
>>              was so bad the wifi cards kept locking up under even
>>             light loads..)
>>
>>              - Solomon
>>             --
>>             Solomon Peachy        pizza at shaftnet dot org
>>             Delray Beach, FL           ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
>>             Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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