fintheman

Okay, I am volunteering my time to help build a wifi hotspot for a "cafe" in a services lounge built for the Airman.

Any suggestions on how to build or write a plan of action? Just thought this would be good experience for me to work with.

I have lots of hands on working with Antennas / Setting up wifi / security, so I feel that I could do this.

Equipment- Linksys WRT54G modified with a fan to support higher mW (or maybe not)

And one or two flat panels directional either ceiling mounted or wall mounted on both sides of cafe.

I don't know if thats overkill though, I would like to try to extend the network past the cafe and into the Airman's Lounge (Sofas and Couches) as well as the dining/reception hall area.

I can take pictures of the setup for suggestions from you guys. I just want to make this as professional as possible.

I may try to get "Nocatsplash" loaded onto the router, as well as Satori. I would like to set up QOS in order of Surfing - Email - Your normal small bandwith hoggers, and let the bittorrents and p2p apps at the bottom.

My security would be comprimised of using the setting to not allow people to see other people on the network. The nocatsplash would be for DoD Policies, and NO this would not even be connected to the NIPRnet at all, so it will be its own connection through cable/dsl/trunk line.

I have access to a radio shop that can provide cabling for any antennas.

And my shop is a full fledged eletronics shop. I would like to try to write a proposal, but, I guess I got to do some research on how to do that in the correct military format.

Thanks for any advice you all may give.

-Fin

"serving the country one coffee at a time"

renderman

Sveasofts offerings are OK, however I'd look into the EWRT firmware (http://www.portless.net/menu/ewrt/) since it has nocat built in. All you would need would be a small back end box to run the database on, and you'd have a nice little setup.

Have'nt had a chance to play with this yet, but it looks to be about right for your purposes.

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fintheman

Thanks, I have seen that one around, and I could do with out the QOS if needed so. As long as it has the ability to increase the mW, even if its only to 84, I think I should be fine.

PSYKO

I like the idea. Just out of curiousity, what base are you setting this up at?

Madhadder

Ahhhhh.....

Make things more intresting by plugging the Setup into SIPRnet
Lots of fun stuff there

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PSYKO

Just don't do that at Kadena AB within the next month or so...it'd create alot of headaches for me...

PaPPy

what base are you doing this at?

also dont do this at Misawa AB japan we have some IIS/IPO guys that are really anal about wireless networks on base. but as long as you arent going through the base network (which would be ilegal per many afi's and afnoids). I think it it would be cooler than paying 60 dollars a month for a gay DSL ISP (the only one on base) that loggs you off every 24 hours.

enough of that are you a contractor? an airman? an instructor? how did you come accross this job?

PSYKO

At least you have access to DSL. Up untill about 3 months ago, the only ISP available on base was 56K dialup. Now we have cable, which is better than dialup, but the most I've been able to squeeze through this thing is about 650K... Needless to say, I'm glad to be leaving soon...

PaPPy

Another 2 years..... I cant get any where neer DSL speeds. If i were to move off base I could get 100mb fiber for the same price. but moving off base would be more cons than the 1 pro

darkling

Mmmm.... 100Mb fiber :drools:

How much would that set you back?

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Well, yea it is.

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PSYKO

A good friend of mine just moved off base about 6 months ago. Within a week he had 100mb fiber installed in his apartment. He's hosting about 4 websites out of his house right now, including mine...

PaPPy

same price as dsl on base which is 60 bucks a month

... i thought i included that.... o well

Madhadder

OK.. So it seems to be a Global thing...

IIS/IPO/Net Security geeks are totaly Anal...

Ours would send out threating (Article 15) letters whenever our
windows servers would try to connect to shares on the main base servers.

Well ok I can kinda see the logic, but the main base servers contained
the main Email/www/ftp servers used by all, and most units had some
netmon tools setup to monitor the main servers/routers etc. These were
all considered to be "Network attacks"...

All this started after they installed "Sidewinder", and they had 1 guy sit
there all day/night to do nothing but monitor all the logs.. (Mostly false positives)

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