<html><body>On 28 April 2010 12:47, Alex Colquhoun <alex.colquhoun@gmail.com> wrote:<br />> If I remember, I will bring a WiFi (802.11g) repeater with me on Thursday to<br />> see if it can help solve the networking problems that some people are<br />> having. The down side is the Holbrook WLAN may not be configured to allow<br />> repeating; we can only try!<br />><br />> An alternate solution would be to use a wireless access point as a bridge to<br />> a wired network used by the moot. However, not all access points can be used<br />> in this way, even by installing Linux (OpenWRT, etc.) on them. I do have a<br />> suitable access point, but it will require a bit of work to get it working,<br />> so it may not be ready for the 29th. May be worth a look for the moot to buy<br />> one, as we once did for a projector.<br /><br />If you have a repeater you can bring AND the repeating is allowed, that sounds a good solution.<br /><br />Otherwise:<br /><br />How much is the type of wireless access point that does what we want?<br /><br />Hmm, wonder if there is someone who is trying to offload an unwanted one?<br /><br />Might be worth asking on the Surrrey LUG list as well, once we find out if it's needed.<br /><br />Of course, from a technical learning point of view I would rather like to try out the suggestion in Steve D's post from a couple of days ago ... that ought to be one of the benefits from coming to a meeting. I would like to be walked through the steps at some point.<br /><br />Re. the projector, luckily the question of buying one didn't matter as I volunteered my own.<br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>