802.11 Wireless Setups

dorris
If everyone is using their own accounts, as specified in the post, surely people can then take care of their own bandwidth? If they hit the cap its up to them to to buy another or use local bandwidth. Also, if say 4 or 5 people are using it, spilt equally this will equal about 100Kbit/s. This is very acceptable for most people. I would say the heavy users get their own line, or get ISDN. Another solution you could add is a proxy of some sort, nothing fancy, this would save on the bandwidth, for which I think 3gigs would be enough for *most* users.

Also, with regards to the messenger, I think that is a non-issue, as most people wouldnt use the more "advanced" features, and if they did, they would already have their own solution i.e ISDN or ADSL.

Also, I would definately keep this "in-house" i.e only for my particular neighbourhood. I am just looking for ideas to share the cost of ADSL, as, even though I could afford it, I am against paying R680 just for line rental.

Just my 2c

Anyone care to chime in about the latencies?

Edit: I see that each user gets their own IP, so they will be "Messenger happy"
 
loosecannon, this is sounding like an idea for me.

A quick question, would the clients use something like RASppoe to connect?

And what distro of Linux would be best suited to the task? I assume you also need a wireless nic that has Linux drivers.
 
yeah they would use that or DUN or the windows broadband dialer ...

i have put together my own distro that does quite nicly i have been putting it in businesses for a while now it is suited to been a ISP i started work on it for use in a ISP enviroment cause RH took to long to setup [i can have it installed and running in 40mins]

the nic is idealy a prism54 type card or the newer cards supported by linuxant/madwifi

http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/13_80211g_PCI_card_options.html
 
loosecannon

Any chance of you "releasing" that custom distro you wrote? As an ISO or something else?

Thanks
 
Hi ,I am sort of cutting into your discussion , but previously you were talking about setting up wlreless links and the hardware and just thought meaby i can help.


I was just wondering if you are aware of the Router 230 boards that you get running the Mikrotic software. It replaces the whole idea with the complete pc with a wireless card running Mikrotic software. It has a build in 200 MHz processor and 64 MB of RAM. but it's the size of a Linksys WRT54G board, so it's small and portable . You can run up to 12 interfaces on one Router board using mini PCI cards on a riser. that means you can have 12 antennas at the same time with different ip ranges, bandwidth control , and a lot more. You also get the WRAP boards, with 2 interfaces build in to it, as well as the pigtails and the POE connector all in one aluminum outdoor enclosure. Just a thought.
 
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