[Liverpool] Wireless access points?

[Bob Ham]

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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Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>

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