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On 01/06/2010 20:31, Rob Beard wrote:
Just bought myself a new router - treated myself with an Amazon voucher I had as a birthday present. The Edimax BR-6574N WiFi Gigabit Broadband Router[1]. £52.99 and it has 4 Gb LAN ports, N wireless, and a nifty stand so you can use it upright or flat. Tested it in the garden and I actually get a signal! You may remember my previous router gave me zero in the garden. OK so it says 'Low' power but the speed is 54 and it's fine for browsing and/or connecting to my NAS box :) It also means I've lost the bottleneck with the router being the only part of the network that wasn't Gb - apart from the cablemodem that is :)On 01/06/2010 17:46, Julian Hall wrote:On 01/06/2010 15:27, Rob Beard wrote:The problem comes though when you want to connect up devices via wifi which don't support WPA. Saying that the only device I've found that doesn't support WPA is the Nintendo DS (and DS Lite)* which only support no encryption, WEP or AOSS.You could theoretically put any such devices in the DMZ and limit their access to the rest of the network?JulianYep, this is what I've done, more or less. I put in an additional wireless access point setup for WEP and it's on a separate network firewalled by IPCop running on VMWare. I only tend to enable it when the kids want to play Mario Kart on their DS Lites.Rob
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