On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:26:52 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Sorry for the slight OT. On Monday I'll have a new shiny MacBook Pro > at home :) (where I will install Gentoo, of course). For this reason, > I'd like to have wireless at home. I myself had to broaden my horizons to set up wireless too. It's a lot more complicated than wired ethernet, but luckily most of the difficulty is hidden away from the user. > So I'm planning to buy a wireless router to share my current DSL* > connection. Since my knowledge on wireless is practically none (I > never owned a notebook since 386 days), I'd like to hear what > Gentooers have to say on how to choose it. I built my own router and put an Atheros WiFi card in it, and performance has been great. I run WPA security - hostapd on the router, wpa_supplicant on my clients. I'm very happy with the performance. > I was also thinking about *building* the wireless router by using one > of the old boxes I have at home and good ol'Tux. Is this possible? In > this case, what kind of wireless hardware do I need to attach? It is my understanding that this is generally accepted to be faster than an integrated router/wifi package. I like it because you have a very fine grained control over routing, firewall, and the like. Yes, I highly recommend this. > Thanks, > m. > > *technically it's optical fiber I'm so jealous. I was just lamenting the other day that whereas I feel that we should have fiber all over the place by now, I feel like internet access prices are crazy. For example, right now from home on a residential line I only get 384Kb upload, but they happily allow me 6Mb down. However, all the business plans at the same price offer less speeds. WTF? Of course, the speed is guaranteed, but still... I really wish we had embraced fiber here in America. We'rea ll still running stupid phone lines (dsl) or coax. (cable) for high speed. I yearn for a T3 slice -- hell, I'd drool over a bonded, or even a single, T1. Not that you're getting those speeds, but I bet you can bump your bandwith without too much $$ and without worrying about capping out at 8Mb or so (about the max of cable round here). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
