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Hello Dub,
I am tweking a wireless network at our church and
trying to get the signal to reach a workstation on the other end of the
building. The signal is very week so I am looking at using another AP
configured as a WAN repeater. Have you tried this type of set up before,
and if so, any suggestions on the configuration of the Linksys 54G?
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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:13
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Okay,
I'll need some help optimizing the settings
and testing
speeds/connectivity, but here's what I've got so far:
1
D-Link DI604 - standard
1 WRT54G v4 - loaded with DD-WRT
1 WRT54GS v4 -
loaded with DD-WRT
2 laptops - loaded with phun!
The D-Link is
connected to the cable internet here and providing the
DHCP service in the
192.168.0.x range. The 54G is configured as an AP
on channel 11 with SSID
backbone.cfn and set to G only. The IP on the
LAN side is 10.1.0.10 with
the wireless and lan ports bridged (as
default).
The 54GS has the
same basic configuration with the exception of being
configured as "client
bridged" with IP 10.1.0.11. Neither of the WRTs
is passing out
addresses.
A client port on the D-Link was plugged in (with a x-over
adapter) to a
LAN port on the 54G. A laptop plugged into a lan port on the
54G was
able to pull an address from the D-Link (of course) and gain access
to
the internet. The other laptop was placed on a LAN port on the 54GS
and
was able to pull an address from the D-Link and gain access to
the
internet.
I know this is pretty basic stuff, but I'm going to
try splitting the
bridged connections so the wireless ports are isolated
from the LAN
ports. Since the wireless and LAN ports are bridged, I imagine
this is
kind of like a big hub, but I'd like to put the wireless ports on
a
vlan with the WAN ports and see if they will route traffic
propperly.
After figuring more of this out, I'd like to try adding WRT
client APs
and see how bandwidth (no, not "Bandwidth", I mean bandwidth)
is
affected.
DD-WRT allows for adjusting the transmit power of the
WRT from the
default 28mW to over 250mW. I'd like to see what kind of range
we can
get out of this and maybe put some antennae out. An omni at the
root
with directionals shooting at it should work well. We could then
drop
copper from the bridges and feed WRTs that serve the wireless
clients
on the columbusfreenet.org SSID. Maybe start with a shot to
the
Cantina? I'm short on APs to test with so I might have to test in
the
field.
Anyhoo, I'm running a little longer than planned with
this.
Anybody else have experience down this
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