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Wifi router near fusebox [migrated]
Can I place a wifi router near our fusebox?
My concern is wether the fusebox will disturb the wifi.
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Configuring DMZ for wireless hosts on OpenWRT Backfire 10.03.1-rc4
I'm not entirely sure about whether this post belongs here or not, but here I go: I have a TP-LINK WR841ND router, running OpenWRT Backfire r24038 (allegedly the release which works best with my ...
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Serving 10,000 simultaneous users over Wifi
I'm looking to offer a wifi service at a public event. The traffic will be very minimal, 10KBps should be adequate. Users don't necessarily need to connect to anything other than the private intranet. ...
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Need Help configuring Cisco Airnet 1130AG to use with SA520W
Setup SA520W with two VLANs; 1 wireless SSID per VLAN. Added an Engenius EOA3630 AP to extend coverage of VLAN/WIFI B to second building however that AP drops connectivity frequently.
I am ...
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1G, 2G, 3G - Are these terms used only in mobile communication? [closed]
I have learned about 1G, 2G, 3G from a book and it all about mobile communication. Are there any relations between other(broadband, WiMAX, WiFi) technologies and these (1G,2G,3G,4G) network standard?
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How Can I Connect Two Sets of Computers Within My Home Office So There's No Cables On the Floor? [migrated]
I have a group of five computers at one end of my home office and another group of four computers across the same room. All are hardwired on the same internal network. These cannot be consolidate or ...
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What is the simplest way to deploy a Captive Portal?
How do I setup in the simplest of ways a Captive Portal? One that is possible on a setup of 1 wireless router and 2 computers. No billing, only authentication.
Also, is it possible to do with Mac OS ...
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Troubleshooting Aruba 92 Access Point
We have an Aruba wireless system with five current access points and a virtual controller. I have just purchased another (Aruba 92) access point and can't get the controller to recognize it. The power ...
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Wireless AP on different routers
I have a Linksys WAG320N Wireless N router and a Belkin Wireless N router. The Linksys is acting as a modem and DHCP server, and I want to set up the Belkin as an AP. Is there any reason this ...
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Wireless Guest Network VLAN
I'm currently in the process of setting up some D-Link DAP-2553 WiFi access points. They have the ability to broadcast multiple SSIDs. These SSIDs can be assigned to VLANS (which I am pretty new ...
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How to change default settings of linksys or other router?
The problem is that after power outage the router sometimes loses its configuration. Is there a way to store settings so they will survive any power outage? Or do you know any routers that by default ...
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Is a PKI required when authenticating a Cisco Aironet AP via radius against AD
We're a small office and have a Cisco Aironet 1250 access point set to WPA-PSK. Now that we've deployed Active Directory I'd like start authenticating my users via radius instead of a PSK.
To this ...
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Make WPA2 enterprise connect before login?
I'm connecting my Windows XP SP3 clients to a WPA2 Enterprise secured wifi network.
The WiFi network is secured using an external RADIUS server with PEAP/MSCHAPv2 as the authentication method.
The ...
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Security Certificate Exception
I am dealing with a small issue of certificate. In our wifi hotspot, every user is given a different username and password. In order to access any website, after connecting to wifi, login credentials ...
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Best but cheap way to provide internet to a multi-let student house?
I manage a student house with 10 bedrooms spread over 4 floors (basement, ground, 1, 2). There is a single ADSL line coming in to the basement.
Currently I have a modem/router (provided by BT, my ...
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WiFi - Slow transfer speeds in high density area [closed]
I am using 802.11g in my apartment block.
There must be many tens of WiFi networks that my laptop detects.
My issue here is that my transfer speed over my WiFi network is topped to 1 MB/s... O_O !!
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Does 802.11 have transmission power control
Does 802.11 (or any of its extensions) support some sort of intelligent transmit power control? If so, is it usually enabled or does it require some non-standard extensions?
I've read that 802.11h ...
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Having a remote .EXE in the XP task list keep wifi connection alive?
I have an interesting problem with an application that has normally resided as an .EXE located on a network drive. The application has been invoked by having a shortcut on the desktop of ...
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Why i cannot access computer with apache on it via 'connectify hotspot' on same computer? [closed]
This is the situation:
Computer running Windows XP
Running Apache
LAN: Internet connection
WLAN (Wi-Fi): Hotspot with Connectify software (http://www.connectify.me/), FREE version
iPhone 3G ...
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WiFi Mesh Network - Roaming Clients
I have a warehouse that I want to cover with WiFi. My thoughts are to use some kind of WDS (repeaters). WDS is a common feature now in many SOHO routers. In the end the warehouse will be split in ...
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Long Distance Networking Options
What would be the best way to connect two freestanding farm buildings onto the same network? The total cable length would be less than 1000 feet. Cat6 is listed as having a max length of about 330', ...
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WiFi Hotspot Security / Payments [closed]
I'm setting up a local coffee shop network-And we need to display a terms of service / authentication screen before they can connect to internet.
Internet --> PC/SERVER --> Wireless Router
Then ...
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Assiging VLAN based on MAC under linux
Is it possible to assign VLANs on Linux based on the MAC address of the client? If so, how? The vconfig man pages seem to indicate it only operates on a port-basis.
I'm trying to achieve a wireless ...
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How to go about waterproofing a wifi antenna? [closed]
So you can purchase a pretty powerful wifi antenna for $50. To make it waterproof would cost you upwards of $500 and force you to go looking for questionable suppliers.
What material can you use to ...
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Multicast with wifi access points
Using 2 consumer grade access points what is the behavior of when multicast packets are sent between them.
Consider -> AP1 -> AP2
(Note that AP1 & AP2 are connected over the LAN ports to the ...
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Setup wifi router to allow connection only when a certificate is installed
I'm not sure if this is in scope of SF, but I'd like to setup a router so that it will only allow connections when a certain certificate is available on the client machine. The question is - is it ...
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Is it possible to merge two broadband connections?
I have installed a hotspot for our local harbor. The hotspot is mainly for Russian ships to use. The installation is a single network setup with several wireless links and access points, so all the ...
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Realistic benchmarks of 802.11n / WiFi N performance?
I need to be able to connect a computer to our network with realistic speeds to the rest of the network of 30+ Mbps (as measured by something like iperf). Running a wire is not an option here, and the ...
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How to reach localhost on windows7 computer with a smartphone through wifi router? [closed]
How to reach localhost on windows7 computer with a smartphone through wifi router? Only through wifi, so people shouldn't access it.
I'll be appreciated if you can help me
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Is there a good way to keep IPv6 multicast packets off WiFi?
I work on a product that consists of a number of headless Linux boxes that work together as a cluster.
These boxes synchronize their state with each other by sending proprietary-format link-local IPv6 ...
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Portable wifi set up with 100s of connections
I'm making a system that can connect all the smart phones in an audience to my server. It's for a fun open-source project that can create animations and interactive games. More info on my G+ ...
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How do you authenticate over http/web for Wi-Fi Access?
If you've used Wi-Fi at any cafe and other various hot spot places around town you might notice that sometimes in order to access the wi-fi you have to go to a login page or an agreements page before ...
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CentOS 6 WiFi using NetworkManager and Without GUI tools
I am using CentOS 6, trying desperately to get Wifi working via a ifcfg-wlan0 file and fudging with /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. I do not have an X server, so I do not want to use the GUI ...
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Using 4 wifi channels rather than 3
I have a wifi deployment with about 60 access points, currently limited to channels 1,6, and 11. This is a college campus, and the residence halls can get quite noisy, from an rf perspective. We ...
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Configuring Wireless on Cisco 851W
Either a powersurge or something caused our router's configuration to get wiped, and our last backup was before the wireless network was setup.
We have not been able to reconfigure the wireless since ...
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Buffalo AirStation High Power N450 Gigabit Wireless Router for a machine shop?
I'm considering Buffalo AirStation High Power N450 Gigabit Wireless Router as an wifi access point only in a manufacturing machine shop 50 ft x 125 ft area. Good coverage of the area is more important ...
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DHCP requests from wlan client not reaching server
I have a dhcp (and dns) server running on a centos/linux pc, which is the only dhcp server on my network. I have two wireless routers - a Netgear DG834G, and a Netgear DGND3700. The DGND3700 is also ...
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Tool to troubleshoot wireless connections
Having a lot of issues with a wireless network with multiple APs sharing the same SSID. I have a tool I use on my android phone (wifianalyzer) that is helpful, but I need a more comprehensive set of ...
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maximum amount of users on ORiNOCO® AP‐700 and AP‐4000 and Cisco 1200 and 1140?
I'm doing a study on how providers can increase usage of public hotspots, and found that they are using ORiNOCO® AP‐700,AP‐4000 ,Cisco 1200 and 1140 wifi access points.
What is the maximum amount of ...
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Can a broadcast storm develop in a loop caused by a wifi connection?
If my laptop or other computer is tied to a wired network, and it automatically joins a wifi router attached to that same network, can the two connections to the network cause a loop that starts a ...
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Transmit Data over wlan in Linux
Its a repost from here : StackOverflow,
I am struggling to find a some tool through which I can transmit the Data through a Wireless Driver which gives me the flexibility to set for instance the ...
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Sharing Internet connection between people in apartment blocks
I am currently trying to choose hardware for two projects.
The first project: there is a five-storey apartment block, which receives Internet connection through Wi-Fi. It is planned to place a grid ...
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Windows Share Unavailable when Accessing from Wifi
We are running a small LAN in our Company using a Cisco Router. Attached to this Router is QNAP NAS providing Access to Data via Windows Shares (we all use Windows 7 Computers). As the Router does not ...
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Securing data sent to an unencrypted WiFi AP
The business plan of a project I'm involved in assumes selling certain WiFi-enabled devices to end users. All these devices originally have an unencrypted connection and a standard SSID. The problem ...
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How do I troubleshoot Mac OS X Cisco IPSec VPN not working over a Samsung Verizon 4G LTE WiFi hotspot?
I have Cisco IPSec VPN (to my employer) configured on my MacBook Air. It works perfectly when I'm at home connected through WiFi to my cable modem (through an Airport Extreme). But when I try to ...
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Wi-Fi Router with only Wi-Fi network creating
I have Linksys WRT-160NL Wi-Fi router with DD-WRT firmware on it. The problem is setting traffic shaping for IPs in router's Wi-Fi network. The only needed thing is to limit up/down speed to (say) 1Mb ...
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Limiting bandwidth of WiFi access point in Windows XP pro
I am running Windows XP as a WiFi access point using software from Atheros.
I need to limit bandwidth that all clients can use; I am using a Cellular internet provider which charges alot for extra ...
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corporate network: wireless vs wired
Our office is getting a serious make over and we are looking into updating our network infrastructure.
My idea was to just update our current cat5e cables to cat6 but my boss (not an IT guy) doesn't ...
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Long Range Wifi Equipment & Software
I am looking to set up a somewhat logn range WiFi "hot spot" that will cover a radius of about 100 - 200 metres. This network is meant to serve people in my building and adjacent buildings.
It is a ...
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Customize browser homepage when connected to my WIFI router
I am a owner of a small coffee shop. We have plenty of information online(facebook, twitter, getsatisfication etc...)
I am wondering that if I can customize my Wifi Router, so that we can offer links ...
