[ale] Wireless Design Suggestions

[Michael D. Hirsch]

I spent several hours trying to get a powerline network to work.  It looks 
really nice.  There are several little boxes you can buy for about $100 
that provide a bridge bewteen ethernet and powerlines.  If you buy one 
such box for each computer, there is not need for cat 5 wiring, at least 
in principle.

In my case it never worked, but the tech support guy I talked to who new 
somthing (after hours on the phone to someone in india, or somewhere, who 
knew nothing) said one of my boxes was broken--but there was no way to 
tell which one.  They both got returned.

But it sounds really nice.  They claim 14 Mbps.

--Michael

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 12:56 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> Excellent point.  I've done some esoteric things to get cat5 from my
> basement to my 2nd floor.  It took probably twice as much cable, but I'm
> still married. :)
>
> Robert, what say you share the site layout and see if we can come up
> with a wired solution that's acceptable?  After all, more geeks then you
> can shake a stick (of memory) at on this list, someone might see
> something you didn't consider...
>
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Wireless networking absolutely SUCKS!!!
> >
> > Slow. Expensive. Slow. SLow. SLOw. SLOW!
> >
> > Unless you drop the $$$$$ for 802.11a which still runs a single
> > connection only at half the speed of a crappy wired connection.
> >
> > Dropping a cat5e line between floors is not _that_ difficult. It's
> > also cheap. For the cost of a decent AP, you can wire the entire house
> > with cat5e. 8 port 100BaseT switches can be had for $40.
> >
> > Besides, how much microwave radiation does your spouse want bouncing
> > through her? Or you for that matter? Be realistic. How long can the
> > laptop run not plugged into the wall?  Do you really want to reduce
> > the network speed in your house to that of a dialup line? Remember,
> > unless you get the latest stuff (not all supported in Linux), wireless
> > is not a full duplex transmission. And don't use the cordless phone
> > while you are downloading.
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 13:38, 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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