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Wireless Access Point Placement

Poll Results: Wireless Access Point Placement

 
  • 56% (9)
    Inside LAN
  • 12% (2)
    Outside LAN
  • 31% (5)
    HUH??
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post #1 of 6
6/1/05 at 5:25am
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I was wondering where you all placed your access point in relationship to your home / office LAN? Do you plug it in inside your LAN (ie directly into the same switch as the PCs on your LAN), or externally (say between your gateway/internet router, ACCESS POINT, Firewall then your main switch) and then VPN / Tunnel through in order to access your LAN?
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post #2 of 6
6/1/05 at 7:59am
My setup's a little unorthodox becausee I'm sharing a dial-up connection and networking my home computers. Here is the outline:

dial-up --(rj-11)--> desktop PC performing ICS --( rj-45)--> ethernet port of the wireless router (dhcp disabled) --(wi-f)--> my wireless laptops and desktops
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post #3 of 6
6/1/05 at 2:24pm
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Originally Posted by Adrenolin
I was wondering where you all placed your access point in relationship to your home / office LAN? Do you plug it in inside your LAN (ie directly into the same switch as the PCs on your LAN), or externally (say between your gateway/internet router, ACCESS POINT, Firewall then your main switch) and then VPN / Tunnel through in order to access your LAN?
wall -> modem -> access point -> router/switch
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post #4 of 6
6/2/05 at 2:25pm
I'm going from the cable modem > Wired router > Access Point
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post #5 of 6
6/2/05 at 5:57pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
My setup's a little unorthodox becausee I'm sharing a dial-up connection and networking my home computers. Here is the outline:

dial-up --(rj-11)--> desktop PC performing ICS --( rj-45)--> ethernet port of the wireless router (dhcp disabled) --(wi-f)--> my wireless laptops and desktops
You are operating a wireless from a dial-up???

I tried that with a Belkin Wireless Access point with both a Latitude LM and a Dimension with dial-up modems to a wireless Notebook without success.

Returned it (OfficeMax) after they said it would only work for Broadband.
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post #6 of 6
6/2/05 at 6:59pm
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Originally Posted by pilotart
You are operating a wireless from a dial-up???
Sharing dial-up internet connection to the wireless router, yes. This lets me use internet connection on my wireless notebook.

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I tried that with a Belkin Wireless Access point with both a Latitude LM and a Dimension with dial-up modems to a wireless Notebook without success.
Returned it (OfficeMax) after they said it would only work for Broadband.
The setup is independent of the router and whether the connection shared is a broadband or a dial-up connection. The router doesn't even know what type of connection is coming in. It doesn't care.

You probably set it up incorrectly because it's kind of tricky but works great. First you have to perform ICS on the dial-up connection that you want to share and select the ethernet card as the device which you want to use to do the sharing. Connect the ethernet card to one of the regular internal network ports on the router (not to the internet port that you use to plug in the ethernet cable from the broadband modem). You then have to disable dhcp on the router (because that's being performed by the ICS desktop). And that's it. You can now use the notebook to connect to the router just like any. Best thing I ever done to my house that can't get a broadband connection.
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