My company has 6 floors and each floor is roughly around 5000 sq ft. I was wondering to cover the whole building with wireless connections. So how many access point do I need to setup to cover the whole building ? How many switches and what kind of hardware, software, and transmission media do I need ? And what kind of other IT infrustrure do I might need for its network? Thanks Asked by Soheil [...]

I am trying to create a Software Access Point in linux. I followed the blog here. Steps I performed: Started dhcp server on wlan0. Properly configured hostapd.conf Enabled packet forwarding & masquerading. Two commands executed regarding iptables: iptables –table nat –append POSTROUTING –out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables –append FORWARD –in-interface wlan0 -j ACCEPT I enabled logging on iptables & I get this in everything.log Jun 29 19:42:03 MBP-archlinux kernel: [10480.180356] IN=eth0 OUT=wlan0 MAC=c8:bc:c8:9b:c4:3c:00:13:80:40:cd:80:08:00 SRC=195.143.92.150 DST=10.0.0.3 [...]

Im moving from an all in one to a router + access point. In doing googling and reasearch and talking to friends I ended up with router – cisco rv016 wifi access point – airnet 1142 lightweight access point. (lap1142n) In trying to set all this up and reading I think I bought the wrong access point. It seems I need a wireless controller? Can someone confirm that I should not have bought the lightweight [...]

I just began working for my school’s networking department, and I was assigned a project to develop a program to listen for traps from SNMP network devices. The device I am testing with an Access Point Cisco Aironet 1242, I have been looking on line on how to do this, and I have come across multiple commands like snmptrapd in unix, but I do not see how I can apply this commands to create a [...]

I’m having issues getting consistant wifi working in my office. We are in a highly built up area with lots of office blocks around us. I know i should change the channels to e.g. 1,6,11 or something similar but what other options do i have. 2 of the access points can see around 30-40 neighbours with more than half giving 50-60% signal. What effects will increasing the power of the access points or what if [...]

I am in need of an adapter that will convert an ethernet port into a wireless access point. I have found a handful of devices, but I’m unable to find a device that is battery powered. Does a self-powered wireless access point even exist? The particular scenario that I will be using the device for is not your typical computer/PC scenario. For the curious, here’s a bit of background on the problem I’m trying to [...]

First of all, thanks so much for all the help from all the techies on this site. We have to implement the ability for guests to use the internet over wireless for an hotel. When guests check into the hotel, if they scan for wireless networks they should get connected to the wireless access point without a password. Once they open any web page, they should be redirected to the hotel main page to enter [...]

First of all thanks so much all the help from all techie on this site. We have to implementation at one of the hotel for they guest use internet from they wireless. Guest checking into hotel if he scan for wireless network he should get connected to wireless access point with out password. Once he open any web page he should redirected to hotel main page for access password. Guest should username/password screen username=cellphone number [...]

I just plugged in a couple tp-link wirless access points and found that while they work fine, I am now seeing traffic going from their internal ip’s to a 239.255.255.250 which is nothing on my network. Researching that ip, it looks like it might be related to ssdp? I looked through all the settings and see nothing about ssdp. I also turned off everything I could find in the ap – upnp, firewall, dhcp, etc. [...]

Not sure if this is the place to ask this, but I couldn’t find a more appropriate StackExchange site. I heard that the quality of wireless connection follows the law of the lowest common denominator – meaning that if 10 users connect to an AP at 50Mbit and one at 5Mbit, everyone gets stuck with 5. [-] Can anyone, with 100% accuracy, say whether this is true or not? I’m asking because we have 8-10 [...]