Primer for Connecting Laptops only to LAN

25 Feb 2005 6:05 PM

loafing

I want to setup the approximately 10 laptops in our office to connect
to the LAN anywhere in the building. I know I want to secure it using
MAC Address filtering and no broadcasting. I'm having a hard time
finding instructional material that will take me from that high-level
to the next level of selecting equipment and making a check list of
other tasks I may have forgotten.

25 Feb 2005 6:23 PM

Jerry Park

loafing wrote:

>I want to setup the approximately 10 laptops in our office to connect
>to the LAN anywhere in the building. I know I want to secure it using
>MAC Address filtering and no broadcasting. I'm having a hard time
>finding instructional material that will take me from that high-level
>to the next level of selecting equipment and making a check list of
>other tasks I may have forgotten.
>
>
>

Forget the MAC addressing and the not broadcasting the SSID.

Set up WPA encryption.

25 Feb 2005 6:44 PM

loafing

I will look into that, but what equipment would be required to plug
into to my LAN Switch? Also, do you know of a document that details
this stuff?

25 Feb 2005 7:03 PM

Jerry Park

loafing wrote:

>I will look into that, but what equipment would be required to plug
>into to my LAN Switch? Also, do you know of a document that details
>this stuff?
>
>
>

No. I'd google for information.

Lots of different brands of AP's and wireless access cards. Just have to
look.

25 Feb 2005 7:08 PM

Airhead

"loafing" <dmg***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I want to setup the approximately 10 laptops in our office to
connect
> to the LAN anywhere in the building. I know I want to secure it
using
> MAC Address filtering and no broadcasting. I'm having a hard time
> finding instructional material that will take me from that
high-level
> to the next level of selecting equipment and making a check list of
> other tasks I may have forgotten.

This is about hotspot deployment but all the info applies to any
wireless lan.
Intel also has a lot of other good info at their site.
http://www.intel.com/business/bss/infrastructure/wireless/deployment/h
otspot.pdf

25 Feb 2005 11:31 PM

whiner

You might post the same question to   http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan

It gets a lot more traffic than this group, and more experienced
opinions.       Free registration , a lot of info if you look around the
site e.g.       http://www.dslreports.com/faq/networking

Cheers
ed

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26 Feb 2005 6:30 PM

Pat

Anything to throw a monkey wrench at them. If these notebooks contain
wireless chips then I guess for convenience you're locked into WPA, et al.

However, if you have the option of buying new adapters, maybe:

(1) Going all 802.11a (not as great range, but it prunes the tree of
hackers, who are mostly scanning for B+G.

(2) Maybe consider Belkin's PRE-N router and notebook adapters. Its Pre N
standard but you can change the hardware in a year for short money, given
what it costs to maintain an office.

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"loafing" <dmg***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1109354757.130564.252880@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I want to setup the approximately 10 laptops in our office to connect
> to the LAN anywhere in the building. I know I want to secure it using
> MAC Address filtering and no broadcasting. I'm having a hard time
> finding instructional material that will take me from that high-level
> to the next level of selecting equipment and making a check list of
> other tasks I may have forgotten.
>

28 Feb 2005 3:59 PM

loafing

Thanks for the responses. I'm looking at getting a 3Com® Wireless LAN
Access Point 7250 with a poe adapter to test out. Anyone have any
opions on this device? I like it because of the roaming, poe, 3Com,
range, and cost.