Good, reliable Wireless AP for a router....

Anybody care to recommend one? It's got to plug into a port of an Alcatel
Speedtouch 510 4 Port router; *not* the ethernet port of a computer - as so
many have as a requirement. I was hoping to pay no more than £80 or so.
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:59:52 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:

> Anybody care to recommend one? It's got to plug into a port of an Alcatel
> Speedtouch 510 4 Port router; *not* the ethernet port of a computer - as
> so many have as a requirement. I was hoping to pay no more than £80 or
> so.


I use a D-Link DWL-2000AP (802.11b/g) works fine here. It's in my loft, it
covers all the house and garden, and surrounding neighbours apparently.

It plugs directly into my 10/100 switch. It can be plugged directly into
a PC using a crossover cable (like any other wirless access point) if
required.

Graham

Graham wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:59:52 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:
>
>> Anybody care to recommend one? It's got to plug into a port of an
>> Alcatel Speedtouch 510 4 Port router; *not* the ethernet port of a
>> computer - as
>> so many have as a requirement. I was hoping to pay no more than £80 or
>> so.
>
>
> I use a D-Link DWL-2000AP (802.11b/g) works fine here. It's in my loft, it
> covers all the house and garden, and surrounding neighbours apparently.
>
> It plugs directly into my 10/100 switch. It can be plugged directly into
> a PC using a crossover cable (like any other wirless access point) if
> required.

Presumably the AP doesn't have to take over and feed all the connected
machines. What I mean is, atm, I have three wired machines plugged into
the router (10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2 & 10.0.0.3). I'd like to leave it that way
and plug the AP into the socket for 10.0.0.4, simply to communicate with a
single notebook. The DHCP, firewall, etc. settings on the wired router
wont make AP configuration more difficult will they?

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Lee J. Moore
http://cafe-society.com

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:40:32 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:

> Graham wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:59:52 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody care to recommend one? It's got to plug into a port of an
>>> Alcatel Speedtouch 510 4 Port router; *not* the ethernet port of a
>>> computer - as
>>> so many have as a requirement. I was hoping to pay no more than £80
>>> or so.
>>
>>
>> I use a D-Link DWL-2000AP (802.11b/g) works fine here. It's in my loft,
>> it covers all the house and garden, and surrounding neighbours
>> apparently.
>>
>> It plugs directly into my 10/100 switch. It can be plugged directly
>> into a PC using a crossover cable (like any other wireless access
>> point) if required.
>
> Presumably the AP doesn't have to take over and feed all the connected
> machines. What I mean is, atm, I have three wired machines plugged into
> the router (10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2 & 10.0.0.3). I'd like to leave it that
> way and plug the AP into the socket for 10.0.0.4, simply to communicate
> with a single notebook. The DHCP, firewall, etc. settings on the wired
> router wont make AP configuration more difficult will they?


Apart from the security you need to implement on the wireless link, to
stop unauthorised access and the encryption to prevent eves-dropping. It
will behave just like one of your wired PC's. The access point will need
it's own ip address for maintenance and setup. This is usually done with
your browser. If you set the access point's ip address to 10.0.0.20 you
simply type http://10.0.0.20 into your web browsers address bar to access
it. Your distant laptop will also need an ip address in the same range as
your wired PC's IE. 10.0.0.4 is fine, it can be allocated manually or with
DHCP if you prefer. If you get another laptop with a wireless network
card, call that one 10.0.0.5 etc. Both will work at the same time. The
wireless laptop will be able to access all the other wired PC's and the
internet as if it was plugged directly into your router.

Hope that makes things clearer, graham

I also use the speedtouch and have added a 3Com Office Connect 11g WAP.
Works flawlessly and was dead easy to setup.

In message <(E-Mail Removed) m>, Graham
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:59:52 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:
>
>> Anybody care to recommend one? It's got to plug into a port of an Alcatel
>> Speedtouch 510 4 Port router; *not* the ethernet port of a computer - as
>> so many have as a requirement. I was hoping to pay no more than £80 or
>> so.
>
>
>I use a D-Link DWL-2000AP (802.11b/g) works fine here. It's in my loft, it
>covers all the house and garden, and surrounding neighbours apparently.
>
>It plugs directly into my 10/100 switch. It can be plugged directly into
>a PC using a crossover cable (like any other wirless access point) if
>required.
>
>Graham
>
>

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