Multiple access points covering an area too large to cover with one is
conventionally done by having them on different channels. The client
adaptor/software will re-associate with an adjacent AP on a different
channel when appropriate. There are reports that them all being on the same
channel also works. Here's a recent discussion of the subject:
http://www.google.com/groups?&selm=f...89iu%404ax.com
To get a firewall between the LAN and the WLAN, what I've done in the past
is connected two consumer-grade routers in series:
BROADBAND MODEM --- Wireless Router --- Wired Router --- LAN
With that arrangement, wireless clients can connect to the internet but have
no more access to the hosts on the LAN than an Internet bad guy would have.
If the wireless clients have to get to resources on the LAN, a VPN to either
the Wired Router or a VPN server on the LAN does the trick.
It would certainly make sense to have a router that had three separate
interfaces --- one for each of WAN, LAN, and WLAN. I don't think there are
any in the consumer-grade product space (<$100).
"Pinko_Commie" <matt_elk(REMOVE)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bvdudg$rahif$(E-Mail Removed)...
> 1) Is it possible to have multiple access points all running on the same
> channel so i can cover our entire office with access points and have my
> users be able to walk between areas and not have to reconnect?
>
> 2) If so, who does them?
>
> 3) Is there such a thing as an AP with a built in firewall between the
> wireless and the ethernet or would ibe best creating a DMZ like affair on
my
> current firewall and have the AP's come in through that?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
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