[geeks] Wireless Router reccomendations

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2008/04/14 Mon AM 05:47:06 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Wireless Router reccomendations

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>I've never used them myself for this, but would it be better to use a
>WiFi interface such as a PCI card or USB dongle, and the add on software
>for Linux to make your computer an access point? Assuming of course that
>you were going to use a computer as your router.

Most USB "dongles" I've come across have some length of USB "extension cord" to get the dongle out of the tangle of wires behind a desktop PC.

>I think that a PCI card would need an antenna on an extension cable and
>the USB dongle would have to also be on an extension cord as sticking it
>behind a metal cased computer would limit its range. It may be enough,
>I have two computers with USB Bluetooth dongles and they both cover my
>apartment, although they are stuck in USB ports on the back of the computer.

Many PCI cards have "remote" antennas with leads of about 1 meter (or so), some with cute little bases.

>However the last thing I want to do is to have my network accessable
>from the street, like my DECT (1.8gHz) phones.

Considered a Farady cage? ;^)

Lionel