[tech] Wireless in UniSFA

[David Adam]

On Tue, 21 May 2013, Mitchell Pomery wrote:
> I approached Unisfa during their committee meeting, and they as a club 
> are willing to pay for 50% of the gear to provide them with better 
> internet access. The plan is to put an access point in Unisfa where 
> DeepThought is plugged in, and using some magical VLANs, have deep 
> thought plugged into the access point.I am suggesting we use something 
> like this: 
> http://www.austin.net.au/networking/modem-routers/tp-link-300m-ultimate-wireless-n-gigabit-rout.html>

That seems reasonable, for $55. The only difference between this and the 
$100+ DIR-825 that we have in UCC is that the D-Link supports both 2.4 GHz 
and 5 GHz channels.

Presumably we would have both the UCC and UCC-Public SSIDs available. It 
is worth noting that in UCC we actually have two access points already - 
coromandel (DIR-825) and clearwing, an older WRT54GL. The UCC and 
UCC-Public SSIDs are separated over these two APs respectively, which 
means they can both have the full bandwidth available on their own 
channels. This would not happen in UniSFA if both SSIDs are available from 
the new AP.

I see OpenWRT have just released a new version which (of course) has a new 
way of configuring the network.

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
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