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.