[Leaplist] Improving my network

[Damien McKenna]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
> That looks like a pretty good access point.  I may upgrade to an N
> access point at some point and that one looks like a good choice.

Yeah, should be pretty good, and I won it in a competition :-)

> Note however that an access point is not a router.

That I know.

Also, this particular AP can only do 11n OR 11g, it can't do both  
simultaneously so I need to account for where the iPhone is going to  
be connected; that was my reason for mentioning having a separate  
WRT54g 11g router.

> I personally prefer to keep network components separate.  I have a
> wireless access point instead of a wireless router.  That access point
> connects directly to my router which is where the routing between my
> LAN, wireless, and internet all happens.  My router is a low cost low
> power consumption (Atom based) PC with 3 ethernet ports on it running
> OpenBSD (yes, Linux works too).

I'm specifically intending to *not* add more full computers to the  
network, I'm only interested in small components I can put in the  
closet.

> For the network switch don't skimp.  A good managed switch has more
> performance and more features than an unmanaged switch.  I would  
> highly
> recommend my HP ProCurve 1800-24G switch however it appears to have  
> been
> replaced by the 1810G-24 which I haven't seen in person yet.

Interesting, though that costs more than I was considering spending  
for both the wired router/firewall and switch combined..

> Note that having 100Mbit devices on your network will not prevent you
> from having gig-e devices on it (though it does prevent you from using
> jumbo frames.  I have 2 10Mbit devices on my LAN and that doesn't  
> affect
> performance at all.

Isn't that a contradiction - jumbo frames presumably make the network  
faster, so therefore 100mbit devices would slow it down?

> If you decide against using the AP I will take it ;)


I might have someone at work who's interested in trading it for an 11n  
router, but I'm not sure he realizes the one I have is just an AP.

Thanks Kevin.

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