This has me sort of hung. I have to get wifi coverage to the campground as there is a demand for it. My DSL interface is a Westell 327W in the store back room. See map for detail. listed later. The issue is when connecting access points to the ethernet ports of that Westell the AP does not seem configurable with DHCP and auto DNS pass thru. Any suggestions will be possibly rewarded with free camping etc if they work! Here's some more in
The 2 main questions I lack answers for are- how to take an ethernet connection from that 327w and remote it to an AP which then would serve DHCP with DNS to both that AP itself and any repeaters. I own 3 DWL-900AP+ and 2 DWL-800AP+ repeaters.
The desired layout is to have local cloud around the store on the Westell 327w, One of the 900's aimed as a spot beam to sites 1-5,also being visible to the snack bar. thence an ethernet bridged device to feed another 900 around the pool in omni with 2 of the 800's as repeaters to fil in the rest of the sewer sites See the map at our site to show geographical site details:
http://campdownunder.com/map.php
Oren,
We do this kind of setup for amusement parks where the games and attractions need to communicate with a central bank server. We've found that it matters a _LOT_ what hardware you use. There are a lot of units out there that just won't cooperate with this kind of setup.
We use a very expensive (~$600) Cisco central access point with a couple of ~$100 antennas, and Lynksys WET200 routers as wireless-to-wired remotes. Trying to do it with cheap hardware, we ended up spending a lot of money on hardware we couldn't use.
Not all of the sites have used the Cisco though, I'll check with our field engineer tomorrow on what else has been tried. We require wired-equivalent reliability, which it doesn't seem you would need, so a less expensive and not quite as reliable system might work for you.
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Oren Beck