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On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 17:16 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:41:33 +0000 > Peter Lloyd-Jones wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 Nov 2005 15:58, Grant Sewell wrote: > > > > Thanks Grant > > > > Thanks, I think I can see where I am going now. The lady on the phone was > > however quite adamant! > > > > Very simply I see my "black box " as being a wireless hub daisy chained with > > CAT5 onto my ADSL Network Router thing. Which is where your links lead me. > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Peter > > No problems Peter. Basically, you want a single router to be at the "outside > edge" of your network, ie it joins you to The Internet. Routers can have multiple > interfaces, but you can get away with just 2: 1 for ADSL and 1 for Ethernet. For > a cabled network you would ordinarily connect multiple machines (or "hosts", or > "nodes") to a "switch" which you can then connect to the router. For a wireless > network, the WAP (Wireless Access Point) takes on the role the role of the switch > (plus a few other fancy features). Access Points often have only 2 interfaces: 1 > wireless (which can accomodate multiple concurrant wireless users) and 1 Ethernet. > There is nothing to stop you from connecting a WAP to a switch, which then > connects to the router, thus enabling both wired and wireless network > communication. > > If this was a new network installation, then it may have payed to go for a > wireless router since you can reduce the number of discreet network devices, and > potentially reduce the cost. However, when you look at what these wireless > routers do, they are generally just ordinary 3 devices in 1 box: a router, switch > and WAP. Since this isn't a new network, it would make better sense to go for a > WAP rather than having another router. > > Hope this clears up networking at least a little. > > Grant. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > I have just bought a laptop with wireless and bluetooth, as i already have a bluetooth dongle i set up a PAN, with instructions from http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN I use Gentoo 64bit but also had it running on suse 9.1 on another machine. Did buy a higher spec bluetooth dongle with a range of 150m. Hope this helps -- Darren Ward <tecknow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html