Re: Advice on creating small net?

I won't go so far as to advise. However, I have been playing with a 
microplus wap.  { 802.1b} That seems to work well as a bridge. Its a bit 
funky in AP mode but in p to p or p to mp mode it works well.{ haven't 
tried client mode} And it has external antenna connectors. It is invisible 
and acts like a signal booster. It will bond to specified mac addresses 
etc. And It is cheap and has interesting / useful features.
I have also been playing with an Intermec 2106 AP [802.1a] That will 
bridge. Supports radius and vpn. I bought it surplus at Vetco for $30.00. 
All of their units have the same MAC#  which is why they are surplus. I had 
to upgrade the software and firmware to make it work. And I can't do much 
testing as I don't have any " A" cards but It seems to work and has some 
interesting features. I asked their tech support a question [ on line]  and 
they answered it over night.
George
At 02:33 PM 10/17/2003, you wrote:

> Greetings-
>
> Hoping the list can offer some advice or pointers to info for the 
> appropriate set-up for my friends situation. Apologies if I'm OT here...
>
> My buddy just bought a house across the street from his workplace, a 
> commute of about 100 feet (lucky #^$*&#). He's hoping to use the DSL 
> connection at his office from his home via wireless connection. He almost 
> has line of sight, were it not for a good-sized leafy tree in his front 
> yard between his office window and living room window of his house. He 
> picked up a Linksys WRT54G, which on it's own is just able to get a weak 
> signal to the front window of his house, but if he moves his laptop 
> anywhere but that front window, (or if it rains/gets windy/etc.), he loses 
> contact. He then picked up a cantenna from the the folks at contenna.com, 
> which seems to improve the signal enough so that he gets a nice signal in 
> his window, and a passable signal in the rest of the front room, but not 
> so much in the rest of the house.
>
> Sooo...I'm thinking he'll want to place a second AP for his front window, 
> to rebroadcast the signal throughout his house, but I'm not sure if A)the 
> WRT54G supports this sort of thing, and B)If it does, will any old AP do 
> for the second unit, or should it be a matching WRT54G? He has access to a 
> Dell TrueMobile 2300, which seems to support both bridging and repeater 
> modes, but I was unable to find a clearcut means to make the two speak to 
> one another. Also, while his immediate goal is to just be able to access 
> the web, check e-mail, etc., I suspect that he may eventually want to be 
> able to VPN into the Win2K network at his office, so support for that 
> would be a nice bonus.
>
> Can folks on the list make any suggestions for the second access point, or 
> perhaps some other option (like a second cantenna?) to get him to the 
> happy surfing place? Advice on both hardware and setup is greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA!
> -Robert-
>
> P.S. Not sure if it's a factor, but the office window closest to his house 
> is a few feet from the point were the electric/phone/etc cabling comes 
> into the building...would this cluster of wire potentially affect the AP's 
> ability to get a signal across the street?
>
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