I am trying to setup my apartments with free
open wireless across the entire complex (10 buildings
in a circle), and I need advice and opinions
on which routers, and antennas you guys think I
should use?
I want it to be an open wireless g network,
perhaps with the capability of using WPA encryption
in case the other neighborhoods start to leech off
the little cable internet connections we will be
using. I plan on hooking it up to one cable
connection at first and seeing how well the entire
neighborhood would deal with that bit of speed,
then if it stays too slow being hogged up by
some kazaa lover, maybe adding more routers and
more cable internet access connections.
I want this to have the ability to be
firewalled, but it will be open at first. If I
see music sharing I will firewall it as I do
not care to have my apartment complex sued for
breaking any media sharing laws. Not to mention if
some kazaa user is hogging all the bandwidth, I
want to be able to stop or limit it.
Junior Member Posts: 6 Registered: 26/8/05 Status: Offline
posted on 26/8/05 at 07:20
Difficult to advise without understanding the distances
involved, the layout of the buildings and where
you need wireless coverage.
Normally, we would do it something like this...
Building (1) Wireless cable router (with built in
firewall) - providing local wireless coverage. Then
from an ethernet port on the router, link it to
a wireless bridge. The wireless bridge then connects
to ...
Building (2) another wireless bridge with an Access
Point plugged into it which provides local coverage.
...and so on.
