- May 23, 2002
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Howdy,
My wife works for a small company (8 people) in a small office. They currently have a fully functioning network with the standard router, file server, etc. They have a couple people with laptops and they are looking to get the ability to use wireless cards. Also they had someone with some cabling problems so might just make any desktops also wireless if they start to have problems.
So, here's the question:
Since they already have their existing network in place, is there any reason NOT to just get a $40 wireless router and use it as a WAP and plug it into their existing router? Assuming it would have WEP on and use dedicated MAC addressing to decide who could log onto it or not, is there any major security problem with doing it this way?
If so, what would you recommend for a relatively inexpensive solution to add wireless to a small office with an existing network already in place? They don't need to be able to access each other's computers... Just the shared network drive and the printers.
Thanks for any input.
My wife works for a small company (8 people) in a small office. They currently have a fully functioning network with the standard router, file server, etc. They have a couple people with laptops and they are looking to get the ability to use wireless cards. Also they had someone with some cabling problems so might just make any desktops also wireless if they start to have problems.
So, here's the question:
Since they already have their existing network in place, is there any reason NOT to just get a $40 wireless router and use it as a WAP and plug it into their existing router? Assuming it would have WEP on and use dedicated MAC addressing to decide who could log onto it or not, is there any major security problem with doing it this way?
If so, what would you recommend for a relatively inexpensive solution to add wireless to a small office with an existing network already in place? They don't need to be able to access each other's computers... Just the shared network drive and the printers.
Thanks for any input.