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Well senao does stupid things but from what I see their signal "quality" to price ration beats all the competition. But if you would tell me is there any better 600mW APs for less then $200 I would switch. As to Mono AP even w/o WDS. I Was playing around and set up one AP based on PC Engines board with 400mW radio and for some reason the performance was just terrible. I don't know what was the cause but after that we don't do any DIY. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Thompson [mailto:jim at netgate dot com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 6:11 PM To: Alex M Cc: Monowall Support List Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Wireless WDS Senao does many stupid things. (You'll note that we sell some of their stuff.) This is why a m0n0wall or pfSense AP would be so nice to have. jim On Mar 14, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Alex M wrote: > Will not ague with our wireless engineers ;-) > We don't use linksys but > As to Senao WDM its just a damn repeater :( What they did is > automatically > obtain MAC off all APs in the SSID and rebroadcast it like a star > mesh. And > the biggest problem is that all APs have to use same channel. Which > makes > WDM useless in very fragmented environment. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Thompson [mailto:jim at netgate dot com] > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:30 PM > To: Alex M > Cc: Monowall Support List > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Wireless WDS > > > On Mar 14, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Alex M wrote: > >> WDS is the way of bridging between APs so CP will work if you >> connect your >> primary (Master) AP to CP Interface and all the rest Slave Repeaters >> will >> use master as the source of Inet connection. > > No, WDS is the common name for the 4 address frame format where you > can set "FromDS" and "ToDS" and have devices behind one STA (be it AP > or client) through another, and on to a 'ditribution medium'. > >> However if you want to use mono's wireless interface and connect >> your AP to >> that interface in WDM mode, then it may work or not it just depends >> on your >> APs. For us we never even considering trying that because majority >> of AP >> makes use proprietary bridging (and WDM) things, they all similar >> but some >> of them just refuse to tallk to other makes, so its better to do WDM >> in same >> brand ewuipment. > > Actually, interoperability between APs is pretty good. The Broadcom > (think linksys wrt54 series and similar) stuff got such huge market > share that the other chipset manufacturers ended up using the wrt54 > series as the 'reference implementation'. > > However, FreeBSD does not (yet) support WDS. Support is in Sam > Leffler's p4 tree, but the driver doesn't work against all supported > cards (just Atheros), so he hasn't released it into HEAD. > > >> If you still need to do WDM on multi make APs that just set up one >> or 2 APs >> as repeaters, that gona do the same as some cheap APs call WDM ex: >> Senao WDM >> is just plain repeater > > WDM? Whats that? > > Jim > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Luke Fahey [mailto:luke at advance dot on dot net] >> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:26 AM >> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >> Subject: [m0n0wall] Wireless WDS >> >> Hi All >> >> Just wondering is there any chance that monowall supports WDS . We >> have >> a few access points in one location and we are hoping to control them >> with the monowall captive portal. >> >> Regards >> >> Luke >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >> For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |