Hi Leonard - have you considered openmesh ... you will probably find you will get cost savings and that whole - re-inventing the wheel thing.
http://www.open-mesh.com/ -JoelW On 19 October 2011 14:08, <leona...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > I have volunteered to implement a wireless network in a school. I have > about 2 > months (till January) to do a proof of concept and implementation will be > summer of 2012. > Initial thoughts: > School is L shaped with 20 rooms , each arm of the L is ~ 35 M (~ 110 ft) > in > length, everything is on one floor.There will be between 40 and 100 clients > connected at any one time throughout the school. Clients need to stay > connected to the wireless network as they move throughout the school. > each arm would have 2 access points at ~ 12M (40 ft) and 24 M (80 ft) from > the > vertex of the 2 arms, and one in the vertex ( 5 APs total) I hope to use > soekris net6501-50: 1 Ghz CPU, 1 Gbyte DDR2-SDRAM, 4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports > as > the AP host, SparkLAN WMIA-199NI INDUSTRIAL GRADE WLAN 802.11n draft wifi > 2.4/5Ghz dual band 3T/3R Module (Atheros AR9001 + AR9160 XSPAN) Wireless > miniPCI cardas the wireless cardProof of concept will use OpenBSD 5.0 to > set > up the wireless network using hostAP to ensure the clients can stay > connected > to the smae ssid throughout the school.. Production network in 2012 will > likely be openbsd 5.1 > > Before I invest money and time into this, does the plan sound reasonable? > Are > there better wireless cards to use as access points? > Thanks for any advise, in particular on better wireless card choice, if > there > is one. > > > Len Zaifman
