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RE: A little wireless advice


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  • Subject: RE: A little wireless advice
  • From: "Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:43:55 -0000
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Dunno, never really measured it because “it’s fast enough. I’ll plug in the laptop and transfer a few 10Meg files back and forth later, and time them with a stopwatch. Once I have some results, I’ll post them. Isn’t it interesting that 3 months ago no-one on this list has wireless?

 

Tim.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 January 2001 19:14
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A little wireless advice

 

Just read this on review of Linksys AP....

 

"It works great in the default Standard Mode. When I turned WEP (encryption) on , transfer rates dropped more than half. "

 

Have you noticed drop in performance with your encryption Tim?

 

M.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sentto-1109639-5680-979583357-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx [mailto:sentto-1109639-5680-979583357-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Timothy Morris
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:16 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A little wireless advice

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.








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