Wireless Bridges .... Some Help Needed

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I have recently been checking prices and it seems that wireless AP's/Bridges are the same priced as last year. I like the sanoa products from miro.... but they damn expensive. I checked a site someone posted, that had a sanoa bridge for about half the price. Obviously the site was based in china.

The fact is, sanoa products are expensive here in SA. What I want know is there any other wireless equipment other than sanoa that can be used in an external enclosure that can bought in SA. It really doesn't bother me if it is 802.11b so long the price is good and the place selling it isn't a doggy place
 
Hi

I use the dlink products - good brand - and buy it from pinnacle micro - another good brand.

They have TONS of wireless products

Cheers
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as a new user of the linksys WRT54G unit, i would have to recommend the WRT54G running the opensource firmware. give uniterm direct a call. they are cheaper then senao range. only had the linksys box a day but you can't go wrong. the box comes with two ant. which makes it possible to run back-to-back ant. like a repeater of sorts or have one ant. for transmit and the other for receive.
 
he box comes with two ant. which makes it possible to run back-to-back ant. like a repeater of sorts or have one ant. for transmit and the other for receive
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not so much, the antenna's are on a diversity switch operating on the same radio, only 1 antenna is ever active. the 2 work together when covering the same area.

but like mufasa says, I would use no other hardware, I know with the linksys, and openwrt, if I want it to be an AP, ethernet bridge, client, wds, or anything a wireless protocol is capable of, the linksys will do it.

no, its not as powerful as the senao's, but knowing the customizations available, its definitely my best buy.
 
dorris said:
not so much, the antenna's are on a diversity switch operating on the same radio, only 1 antenna is ever active. the 2 work together when covering the same area.

but like mufasa says, I would use no other hardware, I know with the linksys, and openwrt, if I want it to be an AP, ethernet bridge, client, wds, or anything a wireless protocol is capable of, the linksys will do it.

no, its not as powerful as the senao's, but knowing the customizations available, its definitely my best buy.
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i stand corrected, but that would be very handy if you could do that with the ant.
 
Just remember you get what you pay for. (mostly)
Senao products are very good. but yes the wrt54g is a great piece of hardware
 
Linksys vs Senao

Somebody on these forum posted that the linksys is software configurable to over 200mW, and that he runs his at 200mW without any problems. That, if true, would make the Linksys AP's and bridges just as powerful as the Senao's.

Anybody out there with more definite info regarding power and ranges. Also, are the two compatible with each other.

There is a big price difference between them.
 
Ok say I got 5 ppl on a 802.11b AP now the issue is coming 1 guy is chowing all the bandwidth slowing the entire network down...... Is there some version free software that will manage the connections?
 
If you are using the Linksys WRT54G, it has some QOS stuff in it. Works quite well.
Depends what the guy is pooning.
If it is BT or P2P, you can drop it's priority and give HTTP, POP, SMTP higher priority.
Thats if you have a Linksys Router. Assuming it's internet traffic you want to control :)

You could put a cheap linux box in before the router, and use Shorewall to throttle traffic on a per IP basis. You could also use smoothwall and so on. I've seen it done on Shorewall. Not sure about the others.

So if you have 5 guys on an ADSL, throttle each of them to 100K for Internet.
 
hmmm I recon I will go check the jawug out. Its not internet traffic its just normal network traffic. AP's aren't switches and therefore it splits the bandwidth/capacity like a hub. The problem is if one oke copies some video file every1 else who might be playing games online experiances spikes.....
 
OK New Question: Im not sure if should make new post or not but anywayz

I have a Senao SL-3054-CB3 Delux, I checked the net and see that the connection problem im getting is with all the devices. Basically I need a firmware upgrade. The only firmware upgrade I find is for a NL-3054-CB3 Delux. From What i understand NL refers to the datacard(PCMCIA) inside the SL device so it should be fine?
 
or it could be a different board they run, and the same card, which would be hazardous to load the wrong firmware.
I know a guy with a senao he tried incorrect firmware for, he bricked it, and said senao support was non-existant, he threw it out!
be careful before upgrading
 
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