Wireless advice needed

[Dave Navarro]

Where I work, we have an existing network connected to DSL using a
Sprint DSL Router.

We would like to add wireless access for our employees who have wireless
cards in their laptops (like me <grin>).

If I buy a wireless router and hook it up, it will set up it's own
little subnet, which I don't want. The laptop users need to access
network printers and the network server.

How can I add wireless access to an existing network? Is there such a
think as a "wireless" hub?

--Dave

 

[JT]

Where I work, we have an existing network connected to DSL using a
Sprint DSL Router.

We would like to add wireless access for our employees who have wireless
cards in their laptops (like me <grin>).

If I buy a wireless router and hook it up, it will set up it's own
little subnet, which I don't want. The laptop users need to access
network printers and the network server.

How can I add wireless access to an existing network? Is there such a
think as a "wireless" hub?

--Dave

You need a wireless access point. Be very careful setting it up because of
security concerns. Recommend getting an 802.11g setup that will support WPA
(the latest encryption standard) and use it!!. No sense sharing your
companies information and printers with the rest of the area.

JT

 

[Dave C.]

You need a wireless access point. Be very careful setting it up because of
security concerns. Recommend getting an 802.11g setup that will support WPA
(the latest encryption standard) and use it!!. No sense sharing your
companies information and printers with the rest of the area.

JT

That brought to mind someone sitting in the parking lot, printing resume's
on your company printer located outside the president's office. -Dave

 

[gene martinez]

That brought to mind someone sitting in the parking lot, printing resume's
on your company printer located outside the president's office. -Dave

Don't laugh, I use to sit in the parking lot and access our wareless.
We had the security setup, but it was fun just doing it.......

 

[Gabriel]

That brought to mind someone sitting in the parking lot, printing resume's
on your company printer located outside the president's office. -Dave

Heh. Sending your resume as a security analyst to someone's unsecured
network printer might be an interesting way to make a splash. "This is
why you need me..."

 

[KCB]

Where I work, we have an existing network connected to DSL using a
Sprint DSL Router.

We would like to add wireless access for our employees who have wireless
cards in their laptops (like me <grin>).

If I buy a wireless router and hook it up, it will set up it's own
little subnet, which I don't want. The laptop users need to access
network printers and the network server.

How can I add wireless access to an existing network? Is there such a
think as a "wireless" hub?

--Dave

Dave,
you might want to check out alt.internet.wireless and
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking. There are many posts about what you
want to do.

 

[woofman]

I like the way you think, devious.

That brought to mind someone sitting in the parking lot, printing resume's
on your company printer located outside the president's office.

-Dave

Heh. Sending your resume as a security analyst to someone's unsecured
network printer might be an interesting way to make a splash. "This is
why you need me..."[/QUOTE]

 

[Dave Navarro]

You need a wireless access point. Be very careful setting it up because of
security concerns. Recommend getting an 802.11g setup that will support WPA
(the latest encryption standard) and use it!!. No sense sharing your
companies information and printers with the rest of the area.

A wireless access point is "different" than a router then, right?

I'm not gonna have to set up wireless as a subnet.

--Dave

 

[JT]

A wireless access point is "different" than a router then, right?

Correct. It interfaces a wired network to wireless. Think of it as a
wireless hub.

I'm not gonna have to set up wireless as a subnet.

No. Same as the rest of the network. Just remember the security.

--Dave

JT

 

[Sooky Grumper]

Correct. It interfaces a wired network to wireless. Think of it as a
wireless hub.

So, say someone has a router and a hub connected to the router through
the uplink port. Can you then connect a wireless access point to the
hub's uplink port, and it'll work okay with the router?

 

[Dave Navarro]

Correct. It interfaces a wired network to wireless. Think of it as a
wireless hub.
No. Same as the rest of the network. Just remember the security.

Outstanding. Any recomendations? I'd especially like one with a
detachable antanae so that I can expand the range to the whole building
at a later date.

--Dave