Well, I promised I would help a friend set up a wireless network in his church (he knows i know nothing about wireless, but am completely networking savy)
The church already has a DSL router to the internet and a patchwork of cabling thru the offices; the goal is to set up some wireless access points so that the access is seamless throughout the facility. I haven't surveyed the wiring, but it may be that the current wiring is daisy chained office to office with hubs in each office, rather than being in the "more correct" star topology. I have no intention of running wires so it may prohibit the use of regular WAPs; i may have to use wireless routers with 4 port switches in each office, ignoring the "router" portion, of course and disabling DHCP et al.
Primary question is: How are the wireless devices set up to allow movement from one antenna to another without an interruption of access? Is this possible? Don't the antenna devices need to talk to each other since only 1 probably has performed authentication?
Any help appreciated. Preference is linksys devices, since I am most familiar with them.
The church already has a DSL router to the internet and a patchwork of cabling thru the offices; the goal is to set up some wireless access points so that the access is seamless throughout the facility. I haven't surveyed the wiring, but it may be that the current wiring is daisy chained office to office with hubs in each office, rather than being in the "more correct" star topology. I have no intention of running wires so it may prohibit the use of regular WAPs; i may have to use wireless routers with 4 port switches in each office, ignoring the "router" portion, of course and disabling DHCP et al.
Primary question is: How are the wireless devices set up to allow movement from one antenna to another without an interruption of access? Is this possible? Don't the antenna devices need to talk to each other since only 1 probably has performed authentication?
Any help appreciated. Preference is linksys devices, since I am most familiar with them.
