From: gARetH baBB (hick_at_gink.org)
Date: 30/06/03 17:27
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Robert Currey wrote:
> Who in the readership of this group has got a machine they wish to
> bring along and have help setting up wireless on? I'm assuming those
I don't think I've seen a definite number of machines required.
Was it 10 ? 5 per side ?
Maybe 6, 3 per side, would be more manageable - especially if available
space in these places is an unknown, squeezing in with the space these
places require for their normal activities.
The Java Lounge may like a machine on the "other" side with just Internet
going - that would demonstrate that this wireless can do Internet as well,
and keeps Java Lounge happy by advertising their services elsewhere, even
if it's just across the road but maybe to people who wouldn't normally use
the Java Lounge.
> amoung us will buy their own cards, true/false?
We have no PCI cards, unless we can get our PCI adaptor back from someone
who borrowed it. So in theory there may be at least one PCI/PCMCIA card
availble here for the day.
How were you going to arrange the network ? Two antennas with WDS/bridging
at one end or one big one ?
Getting away with one may be possible, depending on how far into the
building on the opposite side you want coverage to extend.
I was semi-thinking about, if no-one else had started already, setting up
a laptop with ethernet and wlan for the day to be the/one AP and doing
network stuff (named, dhcpd, gw to Java Lounge's Internet connection if
appropriate etc.), file server etc.
> I can get low end pentiums & crappy monitors. Does anyone know what
> we should do to raise the cash for cards?
Cheapest PCI cards I've seen now are 32 quid.
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.asp?ck=1&r=1&action=info&p=36348
Which I *think* (but don't know) are rebadged Netgear 311s, which Ebuyer
sell for 39.
Could possibly lend one or two machines for the day - minimum of Celeron
333, maybe faster depending on what gets shifted around. Celeron 700 and
AMD-1400 is a possibility. Or something.
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