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airspirit · 08-23-2002, 02:11 PM

I just hooked up my entire neighborhood to my broadband link (I'm pulling 2Mbps down/600Kbps up) via wireless. I'm running my cable in through a Linksys 4pt DSL router, splitting to 1x700Mhz Athlon (XP Pro), 1x1900XP@1850 WC box (XP Pro), and 1xNetgear 802.11b access point. I have two desktops in the house above me pulling through individual USB wireless adapters (Win98), one desktop nextdoor on a USB adapter (Win2k Pro), one down below in another building pulling through a PCI card (WinME), and two up the road pulling through a 8db gain directional antenna->DLink bridge->hub->2xUSB Ethernet adapter to set up early next week (both older laptops running Win98 and ME). I may be adding one or two more machines in the near future (bringing me up to ten on one cable link, *shudder*), and I'm thinking about bringing in another cable link and either multiplexing the lines (if I can figure out how the heck to do it) or just run two wireless subnets each capped at a maximum of five connections. I have become the darned system administrator for my entire neighborhood ... every geek's wet dream (well, interspersed with other things). My poor router is getting pounded on the DHCP issues (it doesn't remove IPs from the DHCP table upon disconnect for some reason, and then allocates the machine a second/third/etc IP when they log back on) so I'm thinking about going to a static IP setup. With how clueless my neighbors are, it might end up being more a hassle then it's worth ... I might just wait for the sparks to come flying from my router.

08-23-2002, 02:11 PM	#67
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	I just hooked up my entire neighborhood to my broadband link (I'm pulling 2Mbps down/600Kbps up) via wireless. I'm running my cable in through a Linksys 4pt DSL router, splitting to 1x700Mhz Athlon (XP Pro), 1x1900XP@1850 WC box (XP Pro), and 1xNetgear 802.11b access point. I have two desktops in the house above me pulling through individual USB wireless adapters (Win98), one desktop nextdoor on a USB adapter (Win2k Pro), one down below in another building pulling through a PCI card (WinME), and two up the road pulling through a 8db gain directional antenna->DLink bridge->hub->2xUSB Ethernet adapter to set up early next week (both older laptops running Win98 and ME). I may be adding one or two more machines in the near future (bringing me up to ten on one cable link, shudder), and I'm thinking about bringing in another cable link and either multiplexing the lines (if I can figure out how the heck to do it) or just run two wireless subnets each capped at a maximum of five connections. I have become the darned system administrator for my entire neighborhood ... every geek's wet dream (well, interspersed with other things). My poor router is getting pounded on the DHCP issues (it doesn't remove IPs from the DHCP table upon disconnect for some reason, and then allocates the machine a second/third/etc IP when they log back on) so I'm thinking about going to a static IP setup. With how clueless my neighbors are, it might end up being more a hassle then it's worth ... I might just wait for the sparks to come flying from my router.