[CS-FSLUG] Setting up a Wireless Network

[Timothy R. Butler]

Hi @ndrew,
> Why not get a wireless access point, rather than a router? They're 
> probably
> cheaper, and you wouldn't have to worry about the two routers 
> conflicting.
> Unless, of course, you're looking for increased functionality in the 
> newer
> router...

	No, it's just that if you look at AP's and routers in stores, they 
typically cost virtually the same price -- my most recent survey of 
BestBuy and CompUSA showed that often times they were exactly the same 
price. Since I need another switch, I hate to buy an AP and a switch if 
I can get along with just two routers...

> As far as wireless cards and Linux, I don't have too much to say. I'm 
> only
> using 802.llb, and I'm only using it as a bridge, but... I have some 
> Dlink
> DWL-900AP+ Access Points that, among other things, can function as 
> wireless
> "nodes" - i.e., you can use a cross-over cable to connect them to a 
> regular
> NIC, and Linux doesn't know the difference. I've only used that 
> feature a
> few times with an old 486 laptop, but it worked exactly as advertised. 
> They
> aren't Linksys, but they are external, and can even use other antennae.
> However, they're 802.llb, not g, and they're typically more expensive.

	I'll have to look into them. B would be fine in this case (the latter 
question is needed for a setup at my church where we are using a 
donated 802.11b router until I convince the office that we should get a 
g one instead)... and its an old system anyway...

	As far as Linksys goes, a lot of my preference has to do with the 
desire to keep everything in a nice, neat stack. Linksys stuff stacks 
nicely on top of each other (so far I have a cable modem and router 
from them...). At the individual computer, it doesn't matter to me as 
much.

	-Tim

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