Hi all,
I just got a call from my dad asking about a wifi access point that:
1. is good (how does one quantify this?) 2. has a 30m range (wikipedia suggests 32m indoor range, and 95m outside as normal ranges for b/g) 3. can support 10-20 connected peers on the wifi interface (I'm guessing there would be a resource limit, but I don't know what it would be, or what is normal) 4. can be used for yard applications a) either is rugged / waterproof enough to be mounted outside, with power and ethernet pulled outside, or b) would be effective enough mounted on the side of the window indoors and remain hidden from view, and the antenna can still pick up wifi peers, and the wifi peers can pick up the AP signals. 5. secured - most should support WEP and WPA, but I'm not sure what the actual requirements for this are - depends on what encryption the users would have, but I'd hope they'd all support WPA-PSK as a minimum.
I suspect most wifi access points would satisfy all of these requirements (except maybe ruggedness in case it was to be mounted outdoors).
Does anyone have any suggestions for a wifi access point that would meet these requirements?
Thanks, Srdjan
On 21 January 2012 11:48, Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I just got a call from my dad asking about a wifi access point that:
[snip list of requirements]
Open Mesh (UK page at http://www.openmesh-uk.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=10) provide an outdoor enclosure for their router; they also are designed to scale up neatly so may provide the additional requirements if you need them in the future. I've never used them so can't really comment on how good they are in practice, though.
Greg