Thats not necessarily true with dealing with directional antennas; while it may appear to be true with omnidirectional ones.
-- ME2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Joe Tinney <jtin...@lastar.com> wrote: > No. There are some bandwidth restrictions and we monitor the bandwidth > utilization on that VLAN but nothing more than that. > > Our physical location is such that the wireless signal strength drops > before it hits any permanent establishments or parking lots not on our > premises. Other than intentional wardriving, there would be very few > circumstances for casual pedestrian access. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:17 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration > > Do you do anything to prevent random people outside your office from > connecting to your guest wireless network? > > -Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 21:21 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration > > While I'm not the one that configured them, our Cisco wireless access > points are configured with two SSID's: one on a VLAN that goes to our > transparent proxy and without access to our other networks and the other on > a VLAN that functions just like our client wired network segment. The first > one is an open Guest network and the latter is WPA2 secured. > > I'm not sure what your network devices would enable you to do but this has > been rock solid configuration for us. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:29 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: OTish: Wireless network configuration > > All, > > We've got a decent wireless network at $WORK, but I'm dissatisified with > it, because it lacks good guest access. > > We have 18 Cisco 1240ag WAPs talking with 3 HP POE switches, which > currently are in our HP 3400cl layer 3 switch on our production network. > There's a single SSID across all of them, and I've got them all configured > on a single VLAN. Works great, but as mentioned there is no guest access. > > I could just stick them all physically outside our firewall, and give the > wireless users an IPSec VPN client, but I really would prefer not to do > that. > > I've been doing some reading, but don't have a good handle on how to move > to a configuration that would work well - without the VPN, that is. > > I'm casting about for ideas - anyone have a solution they like? > Preferably without spending tons of money, of course. > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
