[tech] Wireless in UniSFA
Mitchell Pomery
bob_george33 at hotmail.com
Tue May 21 16:41:13 WST 2013
>From my testing in Unisfa, I could pick up UCC-Public fine. The idea behind this is to provide access to UCC wireless only, in Unisfa.
[BG3]
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:08:36 +0800
> From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> To: bob_george33 at hotmail.com
> CC: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [tech] Wireless in UniSFA
>
> 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
> zanchey@
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