WLAN up again

I ordered a power supply through eBay and it arrived this morning in the mail.  It came from guess where – Hong Kong.  Price $5.99 Shipping $6.99.  Anyway, the DLINK WLAN is working again.

I had to fiddle with it for some time to get the thing going.  I use a 8 port DLINK Router A for the front-end and the WLAN B is behind the firewall: router A is agood one with a lot of features.  I hooked the LAN side of switch B to the  router A.  I could ping anything behind the fire wall but not outside on the Internet.  I scratched my head for a while and then decided to try to change the routing table to connect all traffice from LAN B address  to Router A address.  Bingo everything worked like a champ.

I then added WEP 128 bit strength to just put a little of a challenge to someone wanting access.  There is no way anyone can park close enough to hack into the network unless they sit in my driveway.  The neighbors are sufficiently far to make it difficult to hack in without having a yagi or panel pointed at me & I would see that eventually anyway.

I am sitting at the kitchen table writing this blogline.  Jess will appreciate the wireless part when she comes home for Christmas.  Actually, this was the router used at Purdue for several years.  I am thinking about a “N” router:  I am favoring the Linksys 54 as it is a cheap way to get N speeds.  The Pcmcia cards are only $20, so I could be up and running at N speeds for $75.  I really do not need the speed but would like the 5X distance you get with MIMO.