RE: A little wireless advice

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Looks like a wireless LAN would be very nice if I do get an Epod.  Few questions.

 

1.Can anyone advise on a UK source for cards that will work with Epod and iPAQ (and that don't cost the earth).

2.Can I run this peer-peer setup (as hoc mode) with BOTH the iPAQ and a Epod getting their connection from a single PC?

 

M.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sentto-1109639-5646-979565805-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx [mailto:sentto-1109639-5646-979565805-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Timothy Morris
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 1:37 PM
To: Ukha_D@Egroups. Com
Subject: [ukha_d] A little wireless advice

It seems that I will no longer be in the minority in running a wireless network at home. I went through the learning curve a couple of months ago, so I’ll share what I picked up to save you all going through it.

 

1. Access Points are designed to be used in large facilities to increase network coverage. Unless you live in a mansion there is no need for one in a domestic situation. You can easily use an Ad-hoc network and ICS on the PC you have connected to the internet to achieve the same thing
2. If you have an existing wired network you can route between the wired and wireless nets by splitting the 192.168.0.x network into two subnets by using the mask 255.255.255.128. On the first subnet the network address is 192.168.0.0 and the broadcast address is 192.168.0.127 with the remaining 126 addresses available.  The second subnet will have a network address of 192.168.0.128 and a broadcast address of 192.168.0.255. Windows will automatically set up the correct routing tables for packets moving between the three networks. That is what makes TCP/IP so flexible.

 

Hope that helps. I forget sometimes, as this comes easy to me. I was setting up TCP/IP networks in 1988 fresh out of University.

 

Tim.

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