[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...
Jens Reinemuth jens at reinemuth.info writes: i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy wlan-access-point for the people. OK. The most important issue is the power (watts) output of the transmitter (and sensitivity) of the receiver. You can hack together fantastic software, that will not work well. Make sure that the hardware you select works with the softare(gentoo), before making a final purchase of hardware. Personally, I'd find out the maximum power wattage of what is allowed in your country, and go right up to the max allowed. An external antenna and a booster amplifier will really make your AP usable. It's also a magnet for hackers, so you really have to be on top of your (iptables) security game. You have to research these issues and then according to what hardware you find, what you can construct outside of your unit and what the laws/rules are for your (Rf_police) country. Here in the US, it's the (FCC). Each country has their own Rf_police, some do nothing and others are borderline criminal in Rf spectrum enforcement. Often the ISP's that dominate your local service market, are rather ruthless in not allowing heavy traffic thru your AP; so you have to assess the ferocity of your local ISPs, imho. caveat emptor. hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...
On 10.11.2011 16:48, James wrote: Jens Reinemuthjensat reinemuth.info writes: i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy wlan-access-point for the people. [...] Hi... all you mentioned is really true... i don't care really much for the security as i don't provide the AP, i just want to connect to it ;-) i just want to make the signal - which is ok at the kitchen window - a little bit stronger, so my pc (about 3m away) can connect to it. I found some howtos about this issue (mainly debian) in which it ist described to split your interface in 2 virtual interfaces (wlan0:repeater and wlan0:ap)... You connect with wlan0:repeater to the AP of the WLAN and provide another access point via wlan0:ap... After this, you have to forward your traffic in both directions. Just wanted to know if this is going to work on a gentoo-box with ath5k... And how!? Simple iptables, or do i have to work out some bridging stuff? If i had to provide the main-access-point, i think i would have chosen freifunk or something like that, as the appartment is in the plain country, no houses around, even if some hackers try to connect, you would see every car, every person that is in the radius of 2km around the house ;-) And even if someone really manages to connect - so what!? There are as many court judgments which say you are responsible for ALL traffic via your wifi as the ones saying you are not! I have a legal expenses insurance... Aren't we all hackers? As long as german politicians think (and insist that) it's legal to install trojans on computers, i think it's legal to share my bandwith! regards, Jens
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Jens Reinemuth jens at reinemuth.info writes: [snip[ An external antenna and a booster amplifier will really make your AP usable. A cheap alternative is a simple passive repeater. Cantenna pointed in the direction of the original AP, normal dipole deeper into the apartment, and some coax connecting them. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 17:10 +0100, Jens Reinemuth wrote: On 10.11.2011 16:48, James wrote: Jens Reinemuthjensat reinemuth.info writes: i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy wlan-access-point for the people. [...] Hi... all you mentioned is really true... i don't care really much for the security as i don't provide the AP, i just want to connect to it ;-) problem-low signal-solution:bigger antenna, directional antenna, antenna on the end of a cable, ... google home made 802.11 antenna for some cheap and usable ideas. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...
On 10.11.2011 23:24, William Kenworthy wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 17:10 +0100, Jens Reinemuth wrote: On 10.11.2011 16:48, James wrote: Jens Reinemuthjensat reinemuth.info writes: i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy wlan-access-point for the people. [...] Hi... all you mentioned is really true... i don't care really much for the security as i don't provide the AP, i just want to connect to it ;-) problem-low signal-solution:bigger antenna, directional antenna, antenna on the end of a cable, ... google home made 802.11 antenna for some cheap and usable ideas. BillK Hi... that are great ideas, but i don't have physical access to the router! i am just living there... No ideas how to solve that via software? Currently i am downloading zeroshell, which seems to be able to build up repeaters very easily, but i would like to do it in gentoo... i really only need to repeat the signal for about 3 more meters... Jens
