Re: [Hampshire] Meeting comments

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 05:53:48PM -0500, Andy Random wrote:
> The lack at WiFi at Red Hat was a disadvantage, but possibly easily
> remedied. I did ask one of the Red Hat people there (sorry I forget who)
> if WiFi was available and he said no, but if somebody had a WiFi AP we
> could set something up by linking it to one of the classroom wired
> connections. IIRC Hants has several APs in our network equipment boxes so
> it would be worth bring one along to any future joint meeting.


I'm going to answer Adrian's questions more fully later, although I did have
an enjoyable time!

As far as wireless goes - well there was some. Actually, there was a lot! I
picked up about 8 WLANs on my laptop, all bar one secured. There was even a
RedHat WLAN, one of the secured ones. With that number of networks about,
there will be a lot of interference. That means adding another AP to the mix
might not provide an effective solution.

My guess (and it is only that) would be that RedHat wouldn't be too happy with
an unencrypted AP being added to their network, giving anyone inside or
outside the building access to their network. Of course, we could check with
one of the guys to make sure.

Thanks,

Tony