[ale] Wireless networking suggestions wanted

[dsj at sylvester.dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:39:06PM -0500 Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com> wrote:
> I am going to (finally) buy a wireless setup for my house.  Upon visiting
> the local Office Max/Depot I see a majority of Microsoft branded devices (I
> gather they bought someone out).  I promptly left there and wrote "here".
> 
> What are the setups ALEr's use?  Linksys?  Belkin?  M$???
> 
> How well to integrate it into DSL or Cable internet?  (want to use laptop to
> surf from my lounge chair)

FWIW, there's an article on wireless setup for a Virginia
University in this month's (August) Linux Journal.  There's both
a mac address-based approach and a VPN-based approach described.
The approaches can be adapted to a home-based wireless network.


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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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