Commercial Wireless Access Points

josephc at etards.net josephc at etards.net
Tue Jun 24 14:53:35 EDT 2003


Just a little background: A webdesign firm I work with and I have 
decided to offer wireless Internet access to an office building. Cable is 
not available and commercial DSL is pricey, so we're going to resell our 
high speed connection to other tennants in the building.

Our target is small business groups that are only looking to hook up one 
or two PC's to the Internet.

I had everything planned out and we're about to start rolling when I 
realized last night that there was no way to filter NETBIOS amongst the 
subscribers. While it's up to the enduser to make sure their PC is secure, 
we are going to be catering to users that aren't always computer savy, and 
there is the chance that someone could have a wide-open windows share.

The devices we were going to use are the airPoint-pro from smart bridges. 
It's selling point for us was the range (1mb at 1mile), but there doesn't 
seem to be any filtering available on the device.

I was wondering if anyone had experience with a commercial access point 
that has good range, supports MAC tables, and has a mechanism for blocking 
NETBIOS or filtering ports.

I know this is off linux, but I figure it's worth a shot.

-joe




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