Re: wireless bridging with WRT54G routers

[Sean Jewett <sean@rimboy.com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> I have a client who needed to extend their network to a building next
> to them.  We now have it working with a couple of cheap Linksys WRT54G
> routers using the Sveasoft firmware.  (Now that we've figured it out,
> I could almost certainly get it working with OpenWRT also, but the
> Sveasoft firmware has a nice web interface...)
> 
> So the setup looks something like this:
> 
>       LAN
>        |
>    +--------+
>    | WRT54G |
>    +--------+
> 
>    +--------+
>    | WRT54G |
>    +--------+
>        |
>       LAN
> 
> Next we're going to try to get this working over a bit more of a
> distance.  :-)


The upshot to doing this is that you don't have to worry about electricity
being induced on the lines between the two buildings (ie, lightning
strike).  I had a friend that said their school ran Cat5 down an awning
between two buildings.  While lightning did not strike the building, it
induced enough current during a storm to blow out two 3Com switches and
every NIC connected to them.  At that point they decided fiber between the 
two points was probably a good idea.  Given how how cheap both the 802.11 
stuff and or fiber and adapters (especially if 10 base will cut it) can be 
had it's good insurance.

Sean...


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