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Wireless Access Point connection benefits over Wireless Routers

While I was doing research on wireless connection limits, I stumbled upon this question. Zypher's answer seems to suggest connection capacity benefits of wireless access points over wireless routers. Is there actually a connection capacity benefit…
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Portable, battery-powered, wireless access point, ethernet adapter

I am in need of an adapter that will convert an ethernet port into a wireless access point. I have found a handful of devices, but I'm unable to find a device that is battery powered. Does a self-powered wireless access point even exist? The…
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What are economical ways to combat high amounts of users on access points that cannot handle it?

A few weeks ago my school district closed their public wifi doors and now just have their secure wifi for teachers and administrations only. The reason was that the access points could not handle all the users and their traffic. When they did this…
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Wireless Network Issue, Disconnecting Randomly From Network

I'm having an odd problem with my wireless network. Here is the background information: Server (Windows Server 2008) 1 to 10 end user machines connecting to the network Layer 3 Access Point (Asus WL-330 gE) connected to ethernet of Server and all…
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Setting up a transparent proxy

I am looking at setting up some kind of visitor wireless access for our company however our internet connections all run through a external proxy. After many wasted hours explaining to visitors how to enter the proxy settings before they can…
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Installing WAP 2 for student access with Wireless laptops

I want students that have domain user accounts to be able to bring their laptops to school. I have setup a radius IAS and created a self signed cert. I have chosen to allow domain users to have access. Does this mean that the student laptops must…
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How can I (as a user) check if AP isolation is enabled for a Wi-Fi network?

I suspect AP isolation is enabled on the Wi-Fi network at my workplace as I can't cast my phone screen to another device that supports Miracast. Casting works just fine on my home network with the same devices connected to my home Wi-Fi. How can I,…
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Auth wireless access though an http server

I'm the admin of a wireless network ... but as most people aint expert there seem to be a general problem connecting to it ... as we are using WPA Enterprise, so on windows platforms there are some common steps that have to be used to get it to…
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Will a commercial grade router bottle neck two wireless access points?

This may be a silly a question but here goes. I'm looking into setting up a more robust wireless system for the company I work for. Right now we're running off a NETGEAR AC1200 consumer grade router with about 25 people in one medium size office all…
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Warehouse WiFi Repeatedly Disconnecting Only When Standing Under AP with 'Preferred Site' Error

Here's a strange one, I'm commissioning some Motorola/Symbol MC40 Android scanners in a warehouse environment. They just installed new WiFi APs to cover the warehouse. They seem to work fine, except when standing directly underneath any AP, the WiFi…
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Routed AP openwrt

I am trying to use an Alice Gate2 as routed client to serve Internet connection to a smartTV via Ethernet. The network topology should be as follows: Internet -->(wired)-->[R1]---> (wireless)----> [R2(openwrt)]--(wired)---> smartTV R1 is on…
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Use Access Point to extend network to remote computer without a wireless card

I am trying to set up a computer on a rolling cart so it can be move around the office to be wireless without actually having a wireless card in it. So I need to go from NIC to ethernet cable to wireless but have it so no network settings need to be…
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Release dhcp lease after forcing client to disconnect

I configured a wifi access point based on OpenWRT to limit the number of clients to 4 at the same time. For that purpose I gave a limited number (4) IP addresses leaseable by DHCP. After a period of time (say one hour), I want to force clients to be…
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Radius Client IP Address when setting up Wifi with WPA2 Enterprise?

I have taken over a server setup (as part of my job) which is setup of the following: Server setup with Threat Management Gateway (serving as the firewall) - 192.168.1.1 Server with Domain Controller Role - 192.168.1.10 Server with Radius and NAP…
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Cisco AP vlan setup

I have been racking my brain since last night and all morning with this problem...luckily it's not in a production environment yet. I have done many searches and have come up with the same responses regarding Cisco APs and multiple SSIDs, and I…
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