[Liverpool] Wireless access points?

[Stephen Watkin]

Hi Bob,

Cheers for that. I never even knew that ITX stuff existed! It'd be nice 
to have a play when I have a couple of quid to spare.

What I'll probably end up doing is getting something I can put OpenWRT 
on. I've just recently put it on a Linksys wrt54gl that was acting up 
and it's been running smooth since, so I might just get one of those.

Ste

On 19/02/11 20:28, Bob Ham wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I've had no problem with Netgear access points.  I've used the freebie
> things that I got with Virgin Media, both the old stand-alone model¹ and
> the newer modem-and-access-point "Media Hub"².
>
> Really though, it sounds like you're at the point where you want to put
> together an ALIX box.  There's a company called LinITX that sells ALIX
> boards and enclosures in the UK:
>
>    http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=176&pp=176
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Bob
>
> ¹ http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_firewall_router_wgr614l.php
> ² http://www.netgear.com/products/service-providers/routers-and-gateways/cable-gateways/CG2100.aspx
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 12:33 +0000, Stephen Watkin wrote:
>> I'm at the end of my tether with consumer wireless routers / access
>> points. Every single one I've ever had anything to do with has been a
>> complete nightmare. They either randomly crash and need rebooting every
>> few weeks, or randomly forget or ignore their settings (such as port
>> forwarding) or break completely for no apparent reason. At this point
>> I'm utterly convinced they are all garbage.
>>
>> As you might have guessed, my access point at home has just failed and I
>> need a replacement. Rather than just sink £50 into another bit of
>> plastic tat, I heard you can run an access point off a Linux box. I had
>> a stab at setting that up last night but I didn't get very far. There's
>> a program called 'hostapd' which can run an access point off an attached
>> wifi device. I managed to get the daemon up and running, and to get a
>> client to connect associate with it, but I couldn't so much as ping
>> anything through the connection. As I understand it, the problem could
>> be a few different things - either hostapd isn't configured right, or
>> the bridge interface on the router isn't configured right, or the
>> wireless driver flat-out just doesn't support runnining in AP mode
>> (which wouldn't suprise me, as they're all crappy broadcom ones with
>> bodged drivers).
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this? Or can anyone recommend me a
>> dedicated wireless router that isn't complete shit?
>>
>> Ste
>>
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