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Regards, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/02/05/22/2156240.shtml?tid=126 Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex? Posted by Cliff on Wednesday May 22, @08:50PM from the wave-of-the-future dept. itwerx asks: "I've been asked to design a wireless infrastructure for an apartment complex. Tenants will pay an 'access deposit' and a monthly surcharge to get a PCMCIA/PCI/USB network card along with free installation and, of course, wireless Internet access. The buildings are arranged such that 2 WAP's per building should cover all the tenants (one WAP per side, far enough away to get line-of-sight through the windows). I do have a few concerns, however. All help is appreciated and when we're done we'll put up a HOWTO!" "My concerns are the following: Interference between WAP's (there's several buildings) - there are enough channels if we go 802.11a but cost is a concern. Management of 'hitchhikers' - we're planning on manual assignment via DHCP/MAC address for tenants with others having all their HTTP requests get directed to an info page. Anybody done something different? Interference from WAP's and other devices that may be owned by tenants! Should we just avoid the default channel and hope for the best?!? What other things might I need to worry about?" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
