I just was asked to step in and run the wireless for a confrence in about
3 weeks. I have extensive linux experiance, and good RF knowledge and
experiance, but I haven't worked with openwrt, or running such a dense
wifi envrionment before.
for the access points I'm going to use either dlink 615 clones ($29 each
at frys) or wrt160nl ($99 each)
I also have some 3com G access points that may get used.
My plan is to deploy G access points on low power with directional
antennas on them to point the signal away from the other G access points
to allow me to re-use the channel again in a smaller space, but even so I
doubt that I will be able to use for than a half dozen or so G points
before they start stomping on each other.
So I then want to configure additional access points as a/n only (where
more channels are available) and put quite a few more.
I plan to do the real networking work (bandwidth throttling, dhcp, dns,
etc) upstream from the access points, so all they need to do is to act as
bridges
am I correct in thinking that openwrt is what I should be looking
at? Will it allow me to disable the B/G 2.4GHz band?
I see that for some chipsets there is a config option to limit the number
of machines that can be associated with one access point. what is th limit
if that is not set?
David Lang
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