Wireless LAN capability

I've been offered a wireless hub and network cards cheap. I'm very
interested in taking them so that I can move my two PCs out of the
lounge and into any other room of the house/garden/shed ect.

I currently share my BlueYonder broadband connection with the other
machine with ICS.

What I'd like to know is, do wireless hubs have mac addresses (My 5
port wired hub doesnt)? If they do I could register it with Telewest,
ditch ICS and have both PCs connect directly to the web.

Secondly, is it possible to configure wireless hubs so that say 60% of
its bandwidth is dedicated to one PC and 40% to the other?

TIA,

Colin

On 29/10/03 10:47 am, in article
(E-Mail Removed), "Colin Steadman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've been offered a wireless hub and network cards cheap. I'm very
> interested in taking them so that I can move my two PCs out of the
> lounge and into any other room of the house/garden/shed ect.
>
> I currently share my BlueYonder broadband connection with the other
> machine with ICS.
>
> What I'd like to know is, do wireless hubs have mac addresses (My 5
> port wired hub doesnt)? If they do I could register it with Telewest,
> ditch ICS and have both PCs connect directly to the web.

What make is it ? A lot of routers do have MAC addresses configurable in the
console.

> Secondly, is it possible to configure wireless hubs so that say 60% of
> its bandwidth is dedicated to one PC and 40% to the other?

Not in the router as such AFAIK - that¹s bandwidth management which is
normally carried out either by a piece of client side software which
"chokes" bandwidth on a PC basis, or by an in-line PC which allocates
bandwidth by client IP.

So by a simple router - no.

>
> What make is it ? A lot of routers do have MAC addresses configurable in the
> console.
>


Not sure I should have asked before he disappeared. He wasn't around
long and only mentioned it in passing before putting it up on the
intranet. All I know about it is that its 170UKP new. He's in again
tomorrow morning and is going to bring it so that I can have a look at
it. Wish I'd asked! If it does have a MAC address that I can
register, that would be great!

>
> Not in the router as such AFAIK - that¹s bandwidth management which is
> normally carried out either by a piece of client side software which
> "chokes" bandwidth on a PC basis, or by an in-line PC which allocates
> bandwidth by client IP.
>
> So by a simple router - no.

I've decided this was a stupid pointless idea anyway. I'm now looking
for monitoring tools. After reading a few article during lunch I want
to make sure my network will be protected and I have visibility of any
hack attempts! If you know any links to good introductory articles on
the subject could you post them?

TIA,

Colin

On 29/10/03 3:13 pm, in article
(E-Mail Removed), "Colin Steadman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>
>> What make is it ? A lot of routers do have MAC addresses configurable in the
>> console.
> Not sure I should have asked before he disappeared. He wasn't around
> long and only mentioned it in passing before putting it up on the
> intranet. All I know about it is that its 170UKP new. He's in again
> tomorrow morning and is going to bring it so that I can have a look at
> it. Wish I'd asked! If it does have a MAC address that I can
> register, that would be great!

Try plugging a PC into the LAN side and browse to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1
- the manual will tell you and give you the admin password

>> Not in the router as such AFAIK - that¹s bandwidth management which is
>> normally carried out either by a piece of client side software which
>> "chokes" bandwidth on a PC basis, or by an in-line PC which allocates
>> bandwidth by client IP.
>>
>> So by a simple router - no.
>
> I've decided this was a stupid pointless idea anyway. I'm now looking
> for monitoring tools. After reading a few article during lunch I want
> to make sure my network will be protected and I have visibility of any
> hack attempts! If you know any links to good introductory articles on
> the subject could you post them?

Not sure what you mean by hack attempts but a hardware router firewall will
block all intrusions once you set it - but may not give you a log of
incoming attempts. If you set your router up correctly, your users will not
be able to access the router configuration and open any ports.

As to bandwidth management, if you route all the traffic through a PC, this
would be useful;

http://bandwidthcontroller.com/index.html

> Not sure what you mean by hack attempts but a hardware router firewall will
> block all intrusions once you set it - but may not give you a log of
> incoming attempts. If you set your router up correctly, your users will not
> be able to access the router configuration and open any ports.

I was looking for information yesterday and came across this post in
Google which leads me to belive they aren't 100% secure -

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%3D10%26sa%3DN

I just want to be sure I'm not giving my bandwidth away. Infact I
dont think I'd mind to much if someone borrowed some of it, as long as
it doesn't interfere with what I'm doing or they dont try and nobble
me! But I do think it'd be interesting to see if any connections come
in over the air!

> As to bandwidth management, if you route all the traffic through a PC, this
> would be useful;
>
> http://bandwidthcontroller.com/index.html

If they have a free trial I'll take a butchers.

Thanks for your help.

olin