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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:26:52 +0100 |
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"b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Sorry for the slight OT. On Monday I'll have a new shiny MacBook Pro |
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> at home :) (where I will install Gentoo, of course). For this reason, |
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> I'd like to have wireless at home. |
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I myself had to broaden my horizons to set up wireless too. It's a lot |
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more complicated than wired ethernet, but luckily most of the |
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difficulty is hidden away from the user. |
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> So I'm planning to buy a wireless router to share my current DSL* |
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> connection. Since my knowledge on wireless is practically none (I |
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> never owned a notebook since 386 days), I'd like to hear what |
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> Gentooers have to say on how to choose it. |
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I built my own router and put an Atheros WiFi card in it, and |
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performance has been great. I run WPA security - hostapd on the |
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router, wpa_supplicant on my clients. I'm very happy with the |
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performance. |
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> I was also thinking about *building* the wireless router by using one |
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> of the old boxes I have at home and good ol'Tux. Is this possible? In |
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> this case, what kind of wireless hardware do I need to attach? |
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It is my understanding that this is generally accepted to be faster |
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than an integrated router/wifi package. I like it because you have a |
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very fine grained control over routing, firewall, and the like. Yes, I |
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highly recommend this. |
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> Thanks, |
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> m. |
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> *technically it's optical fiber |
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I'm so jealous. I was just lamenting the other day that |
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whereas I feel that we should have fiber all over the place by now, I |
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feel like internet access prices are crazy. For example, right now |
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from home on a residential line I only get 384Kb upload, but they |
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happily allow me 6Mb down. However, all the business plans at the same |
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price offer less speeds. WTF? Of course, the speed is guaranteed, but |
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still... I really wish we had embraced fiber here in America. We'rea |
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ll still running stupid phone lines (dsl) or coax. (cable) for high |
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speed. I yearn for a T3 slice -- hell, I'd drool over a bonded, or |
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even a single, T1. Not that you're getting those speeds, but I bet you |
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can bump your bandwith without too much $$ and without worrying about |
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capping out at 8Mb or so (about the max of cable round here). |
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