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Suggestion on an Access Point?

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LuckyTaxi

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We're looking to implement wireless in a couple areas of our school. Mainly the cafeteria and library.
I'm looking at Proxim, but wondering if a DLINK will suffice. I have one at home and it runs fine, but we're talking about more users and a bigger area.
 
Originally posted by: amdfanboy
How many & how big ?
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I think one in each area should suffice.
I gotta figure out how big the library is, but I think one AP might work in this area.

As for the cafeteria, it's pretty big considering we have an extension to the outside. Maybe one should work? I dont know the range of some of the higher ends one, but the one I found (by Proxim) is pretty expensive and one would hope it serves a big area.
 
Dude if you can get Proxim or Cisco do your setup right the firsst time. What type of security do you plain on setting up for this wireless lan?
 
Originally posted by: watts3000
Dude if you can get Proxim or Cisco do your setup right the firsst time. What type of security do you plain on setting up for this wireless lan?
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I agree, the cheapest D-Link AP there was $250. They went up to $2500.
 
The reason I asked about security is because I did some wireless test with a linksys wap54g access point. The documentation states that it can do wpa radius, but from my experience it can't perform this task. I used a windows 2003 IAS server and a windows 2003 certificate server. I was running peap everything on the server side was fine but the clients were always dropping there connections , but if I went back to regular wep everything worked fine. Needless to say our wireless project is on hold here at work we put in a request for a much larger budget we are looking at the proxim and cisco ap's.
 
DHCP wireless users with non-routed IP.
Install client VPN on all laptops wanting to gain wireless access.
Configure VPN consentrator/router with two interfaces (1 on priv network, 1 on prod network)
VPN users in to grab real IP from prod network.
Use a good authentication protocol for VPN verification.

I think this will work.

A good tip would be to put a web server on the priv network so that a new user has 1 place to visit (before VPN auth) which will hold information on registration and would containthe install file for download of the vpn client.


extra tip: dont allow routing/NAT between the priv and prod network or the whole idea is moot. only allow the tunnel into the prod network. once the user has obtained a prod IP it wil be able to hit the Internet.
 
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