[geeks] Wireless Routers

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:36:02PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Well, the ones I'd seen have a "WAN" side and "LAN" side[0].  It
> wouldn't so much need to address each port (or even the radio)
> separately so long as it could -just- route packets from the LAN to the
> WAN side and back again (ie: no NAT, no firewall silliness).

I do that all the time. I have a computer set up like a router/file
server (I'm ssh'ed into it now) that runs ppoe to my ISP and provides
DBS lookup, NAT. DHCP, etc.

On the "LAN" side of it I have several computers and two wifi routers on
different floors, one EdiMax, the other D-Link. My network is plugged
into the LAN side of each router. DHCP, NAT, "firewall", etc are turned
off on them. At one time I needed three and had an Apple Airport (the one
with one ethernet and one 56k modem port) too.

They have a fixed IP address on my LAN so I can access them with a web
browser for maintainance.

They have the same SSID and same WEP key and are set up to announce
their SSID. One is on channel 4 and the other on channel 8. All of the
clients I use (Win/XP, MacOS, Linux) all automaticly look for the strongest 
signal with the same SSID and use that channel. 

I could do the same thing with access points, but the cheap ones here go
for almost $300, while "routers" go for $75.

Geoff.


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