[Gllug] Wireless repeaters

Chris Bell chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk
Sun Apr 24 10:03:05 UTC 2011


On Sun 24 Apr, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> 

> 
> So... it's time to build some wireless access points / repeaters!  I
> have a few laptops kicking about, with wireless cards, so I figured I
> could dot these about and build a wireless network that way!
> 
> So - any recommendations?  Are there any distros dedicated to this
> sort of thing?  Are there any projects that folk have used that make
> it nice and easy?  I haven't dicked about with the details of Linux
> wireless for 6 or 7 years, so I have no idea how it's changed.  Do I
> just need to mess about with iwconfig and bridgeutils?
> 


   No idea how much they cost, and I have not tried one, but you can get
high output access points and "high gain" aerials from www.3adl.com

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