[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On 2007-10-29, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell ha scritto: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same switch/hub as you can the wired connections. They usually bridge the connections. You're probably right; you only need an AP, because you likely already have a gateway/router. They sell for about $20 us around here, if you get them on the web. Exactly what I thought. Thanks. As for the brand, is Netgear stuff so bad? Here these gadgets seem to be more costly, and Netgears cost much less than Linksys stuff. I've had good luck with Buffalo AP/routers and xwrt firmware. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now we can become at alcoholics! visi.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On Monday 29 October 2007 10:40:08 am Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-10-29, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell ha scritto: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same switch/hub as you can the wired connections. They usually bridge the connections. You're probably right; you only need an AP, because you likely already have a gateway/router. They sell for about $20 us around here, if you get them on the web. Exactly what I thought. Thanks. As for the brand, is Netgear stuff so bad? Here these gadgets seem to be more costly, and Netgears cost much less than Linksys stuff. I've had good luck with Buffalo AP/routers and xwrt firmware. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now we can become at alcoholics! visi.com Do you really need router functionality? If not, I've had tremendous success with SENAO brand WAPs... namely http://www.wlansolution.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=NCB%2D3220 Excellent, if all you really need is 802.11b or g and basic WAP features. Setup is via web browserand it delivers 400mw of power. Goes through most anything and makes just about all other name brand stuff look dismally weak... Usually I set these up behind a linux firewall on their own subnet and ipchain/iptable access to users as needed. Works really, really well. Oh... almost forgot, it's a linux appliance and supports remote syslog feature. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On 10/29/07, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you really need router functionality? If not, I've had tremendous success with SENAO brand WAPs... namely http://www.wlansolution.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=NCB%2D3220 Excellent, if all you really need is 802.11b or g and basic WAP features. Setup is via web browserand it delivers 400mw of power. Goes through most anything and makes just about all other name brand stuff look dismally weak... [...] Oh... almost forgot, it's a linux appliance and supports remote syslog feature. Thanks. Looks beautiful, but no way I spend 100€ on a WAP. The Linksys is a router too, and costs roughly 65€. Router functionality may be useful for me in the future (If there was a WAP for 20€, I'd have took the WAP, but it seems its' not the case, apart from the Fonera rubbish). My home is little (it's basically a 2-rooms little apartment), so I guess extra power is not really needed... However thanks for the tip! m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On 2007-10-29, brullo nulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will settle for this: Linksys Gateway Wireless Wrt54g If you want to run after-market firmware, you need to get the L version (WRT54GL), or an older version of the WRT54G. Newer versions of the WRT54G (sans L) have had the amount of memory cut in half. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are we laid back yet? at visi.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On 2007-10-29, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 10:40:08 am Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-10-29, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell ha scritto: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same switch/hub as you can the wired connections. They usually bridge the connections. You're probably right; you only need an AP, because you likely already have a gateway/router. They sell for about $20 us around here, if you get them on the web. Exactly what I thought. Thanks. As for the brand, is Netgear stuff so bad? Here these gadgets seem to be more costly, and Netgears cost much less than Linksys stuff. I've had good luck with Buffalo AP/routers and xwrt firmware. Do you really need router functionality? I do. It's the firewall between me and the internet. It also acts as my DHCP server, a caching DNS server, and a terminating point for VPN connections. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! My pants just went to at high school in the Carlsbad visi.comCaverns!!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
Hi Dan, on Sunday, 2007-10-28 at 18:30:17, you wrote: Of course you can build a low-power system and probably get by without any fans at all if you're clever, and if you outsource the hard drive to another computer you get a fairly low power design that's silent. But not nearly as low power as an integrated device. Or as small. The one that probably comes closest is a VIA Cx system. I got a Cobalt Cube a while ago to replace my current guzzler of a server (old HPPA workstation) and to experiment with other unusual CPUs a bit, and while it's pretty, small, low-power and rather quiet, it's also quite slow. So I've just ordered a passively cooled 800 MHz VIA C7 nanoITX board to replace the MIPS hardware in there and get something that can handle HD encryption and Samba at a decent speed on top of the routing. The plan is to build the syatem on HD and move it to a CF card later so I can spin down the big HD when it's not in use. If it works out it will be a damn neat system, but anyway it's still four times the size of a WRT54 and consumes twice the power. That's the most powerful chip I've found in the 20-30 watts-per-system range though, all the recycled stuff I've run so far doesn't even come close. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpXEjrI4nVT6.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On 2007-10-28, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people go for this option, but there's definitely something good to be said about the flexibility (and power!) of using a home-built router from a second hand desktop. If you don't mind the power, heat, bulk and noise. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:19:05 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't mind the power, heat, bulk and noise. :) The trade-off is that precisely. Of course you can build a low-power system and probably get by without any fans at all if you're clever, and if you outsource the hard drive to another computer you get a fairly low power design that's silent. But not nearly as low power as an integrated device. Or as small. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
