Re: Linking Wired and Wireless network...

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On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:50, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > > I did a test after purchasing my own wireless card. In downloading 
> > > the same file from the same remote site with a wired and wireless 
> > > machine. The wireless machine got 40K per second, while the wired 
> > > machine got 8K per second. 
> > 
> > This is probably a temporary situation and will change as more
> > users start to share the wireless link.
> > 
> 
> Not likely, the 3 wireless DSL lines are totally separate from wired 
> lan, so only internet traffic without having to go out to the ISP and 
> back in thru the T-1 line. Classrooms are only hard-wired, so 
> classrooms could only change by adding wireless cards, and would 
> then lose access to local servers and printing, 

I'd expect students to be using more of their own laptops with
wireless everywhere.
 
> > If your 4 class C's are adjacent and aligned on the right
> > bit-boundary they could be supernetted with a netmask
> > of 255.255.252.0.  That won't help with internet access,
> > but machine<->machine communication would not need to
> > bounce though the router.  I'd be surprised if that isn't
> > the case already. 
> > 
> 
> 11001010.10000000.01000111.00000000
> 11001010.10000000.01001000.00000000
> 11001010.10000000.01001001.00000000
> 11001010.10000000.01001111.00000000
> 
> Those are the 4 IP blocks. 71, 72, 73, and 79. 
> It would take a mask of 240 to get them together I believe. 

If they can't get something that simple right, and they put
a 10Meg router interface on the connect point, you have my
sympathy.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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