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b.n. wrote: |
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> Dan Farrell ha scritto: |
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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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>>> 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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> Good to know. I frankly have never set up a router, let alone a wireless |
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> one, so I hope you can let me know some good link on howtos... |
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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. |
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> Why? |
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>> 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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> Keep in mind I basically just need something that does a DHCP connection |
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> wireless. Like having a lot of invisible ethernet cables dangling in the |
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> air. I do not need anything else. I'm *extremly ignorant* about anything |
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> wireless, so let me know where to look for setting up something like that. |
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> (However I'm thinking that I'd like something portable, since in 15 |
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> months from now I'll be out of this city...) |
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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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> Well, here in Italy fiber was brought just by one young telco, FastWeb, |
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> that also does DSL. Most Internet users in Italy still use plain DSL at |
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> crazy prices (about 100% more than in the rest of Europe, even if things |
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> are getting less crazy), and fiber is *damn costly* (about 3-4x than |
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> DSL) -however, FastWeb guarantees a more reliable service than other |
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> providers. Moreover fiber coverage is very poor (almost only major |
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> cities have it, not every major city has it, and even in cities coverage |
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> is patchy -I live in *one* of the zones in my city that has it, but a |
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> few hunderd meters away, no fiber!). FastWeb was planning for bringing |
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> fiber almost everywhere DSL is available, but it has economical troubles |
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> now, so new fiber coverage has halted. I just had luck, and I wanted to |
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> spend money on a good, reliable provider instead than on the extremly |
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> unreliable DSL Italian providers. |
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> m. |
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Well, if I can just get DSL I will be happy. I can only get dial-up |
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here, unless I get one of those satellite things that costs a lot. We |
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did just a couple months ago get a new phone box up the road. A few |
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weeks ago they hooked up the fiber cable to it. They have to install |
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something else before we can get DSL out here. I'm just glad to see |
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progress. Downloading OOo on 26K dial-up sucks. For those trying to |
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figure it out, about 24 to 26 hours. |
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I hope you get what you want for networking. When I was with my ex, we |
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had cable and I used the Linksys router that was mentioned. I never had |
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any trouble with it on my Linux box. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |