1.
Depends
what you want Mark, but you are looking at around £100+VAT per card
whatever
you buy – unless you go for the old 2Mbit standard. I’m not
sure that in a
domestic setting high levels of encryption are totally necessary –
unless you
have someone sitting 100 feet from your house in a van that has managed to
establish
your SSID (it is a key that you need to connect in a wireless network)
– so I
would go for the low encryption standard (40 bit is actually the same as 64
bit
– there is a 40 bit user key and a 24 bit system key). Make sure that
you also
buy kit that takes an external antenna – certainly at the server end.
I would
recommend the Compaq stuff – and I would be able to send you an
extension lead –
but I have no idea as to how long it will be until my connectors
arrive.
2.
Yes, up
to 255 in total – though net surfing may get a little slow with that
many!
Tim.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Mark McCall
[mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 January 2001
17:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A little
wireless advice
Looks
like a wireless LAN would be very nice if I do get an Epod. Few
questions.
1.Can
anyone advise on a UK source for cards that will work with Epod and iPAQ
(and
that don't cost the earth).
2.Can I
run this peer-peer setup (as hoc mode) with BOTH the iPAQ and a Epod
getting
their connection from a single PC?
M.
-----Original
Message-----
From:
sentto-1109639-5646-979565805-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx
[mailto:sentto-1109639-5646-979565805-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Timothy Morris
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001
1:37 PM
To: Ukha_D@Egroups. Com
Subject: [ukha_d] A little
wireless advice
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.
1.
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
2.
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.