Suggestions for Modem/Router/Bridge?

Our village hall needs a Broadband connection, but we cannot have ADSL
ourselves as we have no physical landline.

I have found a neighbour across the road who will "host" ADSL for us on
their phone line, and I am looking for suggestions on wireless kit.

We have a small network in the hall (up to 8 PC's at any time, for IT
evening classes), so I need a bridge unit at that end - I've found the
D-link DWL-900AP+ to work well for a point-to-point bridge elsewhere.

But for the "host" end?

For neatness (the hosts don't want to fill their study with mains leads)
I was thinking of a combined Modem/Router/Bridge unit - ideally with at
least one RJ45 socket to allow the hosts to connect their PC directly.

Would any Modem/Router/Access-Point unit work in bridging mode? (ie is
it only the other end that needs to know it is bridging?).

If not, any suggestions of suitable models? We don't need VOIP. It would
be good (but not essential) to have the ability to let me see how much
throughput is coming from the hosts and how much from the hall might be
in case we start hitting above-quota charges for throughput in future.
And the ability to stop either host or hall taking 100% of the bandwidth
at any time would be good too.

Ideas, please.

John Geddes
Derbyshire

John Geddes wrote:
> Our village hall needs a Broadband connection, but we cannot have ADSL
> ourselves as we have no physical landline.
>
> I have found a neighbour across the road who will "host" ADSL for us
> on their phone line, and I am looking for suggestions on wireless kit.
>
> We have a small network in the hall (up to 8 PC's at any time, for IT
> evening classes), so I need a bridge unit at that end - I've found the
> D-link DWL-900AP+ to work well for a point-to-point bridge elsewhere.
>
> But for the "host" end?
>
> For neatness (the hosts don't want to fill their study with mains
> leads) I was thinking of a combined Modem/Router/Bridge unit -
> ideally with at least one RJ45 socket to allow the hosts to connect
> their PC directly.
> Would any Modem/Router/Access-Point unit work in bridging mode? (ie is
> it only the other end that needs to know it is bridging?).
>
> If not, any suggestions of suitable models? We don't need VOIP. It
> would be good (but not essential) to have the ability to let me see
> how much throughput is coming from the hosts and how much from the
> hall might be in case we start hitting above-quota charges for
> throughput in future. And the ability to stop either host or hall
> taking 100% of the bandwidth at any time would be good too.
>
> Ideas, please.
>
> John Geddes
> Derbyshire

Have you looked at the new Netgear WPN products as they can run at
faster than version.g product sppeds & they are supposed to give upto
500% better coverage. The Wifi access point (WPN802) can also run as a
repeater as well.

The only problem I have experienced is that to get the maximum out of
the kit, it defaults to band 6, most probably because of the extra
bandwidth it uses & guess which channel my next door neighbour is
on....mind you they aren't very PC savvy so if they do, & they will,
experience any problems on their wifi link I'll have to sort it out for
them (most probably put them on channel 13)..

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:44:15 +0000, John Geddes
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Would any Modem/Router/Access-Point unit work in bridging mode? (ie is
>it only the other end that needs to know it is bridging?).

a combined adsl modem/wireless router at one end, with an access point
or router in client mode at the other. You could have a NAT LAN in the
village hall behind a client device and the ADSL modem router would
see a single connection from the client device and not know it from a
single PC. If you don't do anything fancy on the LAN the double-NAT
wouldn't be a problem.

<http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-wap011a.htm> is capable of running
in client mode.

Is the wireless distance such that external aerials would be needed ?

Phil
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Phil Thompson wrote:

>
> <http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-wap011a.htm> is capable of running
> in client mode.

Looks like an excellent option - very neat and extremely versatile.
Thanks for the suggestion

> Is the wireless distance such that external aerials would be needed ?

No - luckily our immediate neighbour is being very cooperative, and I
think we will be able to site things so we have to go through a door and
two windows only - at worst one wall (around here we are talking about
very substantial stone walls).


Thanks for help

John Geddes
Derbyshire

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:00:09 +0000, John Geddes
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Looks like an excellent option - very neat and extremely versatile.
>Thanks for the suggestion

the expensive version is at
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-el-2611cb3.htm

Phil
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