WLAN shielding
David Barak
thegameiam at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 26 17:41:10 UTC 2003
--- Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
>
> >Planning on limiting signal using a physical
> mechanism of some sort's
> just
> >a little too scifi to be useful.
>
> It's too much effort to shield the room itself, but
> you
> might want to try making the inverse square law work
> for
> you by shielding all of the wireless antennae so
> that
> the signal is too weak to travel more than a meter
> or two. Put extra shielded wireless access points on
>
> the conference tables so that everyone can place
> their
> laptops within range of a signal.
However, if you're talking about one room only, and
you're trying to prevent outsiders from sniffing, why
not just use a cheap workgroup switch/hub? Having to
buy multiple WAPs and insulate them quickly destroys
the wireless value-add...
-David Barak
=====
David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-
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