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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Dan Dart wrote:
You can always set up an access point from a computer with a wifi card using the airbase-ng tool from the aircrack suite: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ Most distros have this in the repos.
I could, but I am not going to. Many reasons including:It would require the purchase of a PCI Wi-Fi card - which I don't already have.
I'd need to leave those PCs on all the time.I want the Wi-Fi LAN to be separate from my home/office LAN with it's own firewalling. (something I already have, so hooking into that network will be easy)
I'm being lazy about this: I want something that just plugs in and works - I really can't be arsed building my own or re-flashing a router, etc.
I need more than one to get full coverage in my house. I actually need 3 to do it properly, but I can get away with 2. (And I want 2 of the same make to give roaming half a chance to work)
I want new kit that'll hopefully last for a few years. (My current one is 6 years old)
I'll very likely get the Drayteks as I like Draytek. I was just whinging about prices that I was surprised about being what they are, that's all!
Gordon On 21 April 2010 14:30, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Was looking to get a couple for home to replace the ageing 802.11b kit I currently have, thinking they must be quite cheap now, but I'm sort of surprised by their price - So as I'm a dealer, a quick look at the Draytek catalogue shows the RRP of their AP-700 at £69+VAT, so I thought other makes would be much cheaper - but they're not! A quick look at broadband buyer shows prices rather high for simple access points, and stupidly high for "business grade" ones. It would probably be cheaper to get an ADSL router with built-in Wi-Fi and just turn off the router bits. But I guess that's consumerism for you - everyone wants the "all in one" box, so individual components actually start to cost more. So I'll probably stick to the Draytek ones - at the trade price, they're cheaper than most of the others I've seen so-far... (Buffalo being the exception, but not sure if they're really much good!) Ho hum. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
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