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Wireless ADSL stuff



Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions (esp. Mark and Mary for giving up a Saturday afternoon). I’ve now got the following set up on my living room floor for testing purposes (good job I’m single)

 

Alcatel 510 DSL router

Linksys 8 port switch

2 x WAP 11s

 

All took about an hour to set up out of the box, plus a scary half hour where I thought a failed firmware update had fried one of the WAPs! Using 3 workstations plus the router with the switch gives far better performance than peer-peer networking even with encryption turned on.

 

For those of you using these in corporate settings, is there a minimum recommended channel spacing between adjacent APs, and do they operate on a hand-off basis like cellular phones should do, or are they like cellular phones really work, and you have to loose the signal from the really weak base station before you can log on to the base station you are less than a foot away from?

 

Any resources that can point me in the direction of encryption together with XP, and is it possible to mix 128 and 64 bit encryption (I’m pretty sure that one is a no-no)? In particular what is the difference between open and shared key, and both?

 

Tim – who’s been using wireless for ages, but only peer-peer.


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