It seems that I will no longer be in the minority in running a
wireless
network at home. I went through the learning curve a couple of months ago,
so I’ll
share what I picked up to save you all going through
it.
- Access
Points are designed to be used in large facilities to increase network
coverage. Unless you live in a mansion there is no need for one in a
domestic situation. You can easily use an Ad-hoc network and ICS on the PC
you have connected to the internet to achieve the same
thing
- If
you have an existing wired network you can route between the wired and
wireless nets by splitting the 192.168.0.x network into two subnets by
using the mask 255.255.255.128. On the first subnet the network address is
192.168.0.0 and the broadcast address is 192.168.0.127 with the remaining
126 addresses available. The
second subnet will have a network address of 192.168.0.128 and a broadcast
address of 192.168.0.255. Windows will automatically set up the correct
routing tables for packets moving between the three networks. That is what
makes TCP/IP so flexible.
Hope that helps. I forget sometimes, as this comes easy to me. I was
setting up TCP/IP networks in 1988 fresh out of
University.
Tim.