Networking Woes

[Daver1963]

The layout of the land also means there is no cell phone coverage... at least with AT&T... lucky to get one bar if I'm standing sideways at the upstairs bedroom window.

I don't know the layout of the land or your house, but you might could install a passive repeater antenna to boost cell signal in the house. Might even get 4G internet if the tower is close enough.

 

[davrow]

Okay, I'm used to cable Internet in the city. An actual cable comes to my home and a modem is attached to that. One cable from that to a router and a couple switches and I'm good to go. Router provides wi-fi for tablets. All the sub-nets I want, all the firewall rules I want, port forwarding, passwords, whatever.

Out in the country there are no wires. So I have a wi-fi 'router' (supplied by the service company) out in the yard that gives me access to the Internet fine. My TV supports wi-fi so we get Netflix and I can reach TBN. They gave me one fixed IP address so my wi-fi camera can be accessed from outside.

But I have no idea how to hook up non-wifi equipment to this network. Like my printers and scanners. How do I make them network accessible now that there is no Ethernet to plug into?

 

[Daver1963]

Okay, I'm used to cable Internet in the city. An actual cable comes to my home and a modem is attached to that. One cable from that to a router and a couple switches and I'm good to go. Router provides wi-fi for tablets. All the sub-nets I want, all the firewall rules I want, port forwarding, passwords, whatever.

Out in the country there are no wires. So I have a wi-fi 'router' (supplied by the service company) out in the yard that gives me access to the Internet fine. My TV supports wi-fi so we get Netflix and I can reach TBN. They gave me one fixed IP address so my wi-fi camera can be accessed from outside.

But I have no idea how to hook up non-wifi equipment to this network. Like my printers and scanners. How do I make them network accessible now that there is no Ethernet to plug into?

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This is a possibility. Get it set up and hook a small switch to the Ethernet port.

 

[ultrarunner]

I don't know the layout of the land or your house, but you might could install a passive repeater antenna to boost cell signal in the house. Might even get 4G internet if the tower is close enough.

There's talk of a cell tower going in at the local Fire Station... they already have a communications tower.

I think I would benefit immensely if it does happen.

The moment I turn into the drive it is like turning a switch to off...

Just like turning on the highway is like turning a switch to on and finding a bunch of missed calls.

 

[AaronS]

I'm running an enterprise type domain network here on the farm with 8 VLANs, open guest wireless, secure wireless, a couple of public servers on a DMZ, and a zone based firewall. There was a bit of a learning curve even though my job involves networking.

My first thought is "OMG why?!"

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Davrow,
use a wireless access point. Has ethernet jack for nonwireless. It talks wireless to ur wireless router.

 

[/pine]

You should be able to distinctly name the different gateways (SSID) via the router interface ?

 

[Country Geek]

Davrow,
use a wireless access point. Has ethernet jack for nonwireless. It talks wireless to ur wireless router.

Right. Here's an example of one:

Amazon.com: IOGEAR Universal Ethernet to Wi-Fi N Adapter for Home or Office GWU627 (Black): Electronics

 

[dcyrilc]

My first thought is "OMG why?!"

As much as anything, probably to prove to myself that I could work it out and do it. Partly for security.

Six of my cameras and two VLANs are across town at my father-in-laws house which sits empty as he doesn't want anything done with it.

I have a guest VLAN, home VLAN, server VLAN video VLAN, VOIP VLAN, and the DMZ. Resonable sepperation. I keep a schema for my network as I have 74 different pieces of IP addressable equipment. Some of those were just because they were too awesome to pass up for their price. I have 4 power strips which are fully managed and accessable via IP (Buy Rack PDU, Switched, 1U, 20A, 120V, (8)5-20 - Technical Specifications and Information | APC). I picked them up surplus for $50 each.

 

[Jstpssng]

There's talk of a cell tower going in at the local Fire Station... they already have a communications tower.

I think I would benefit immensely if it does happen.

The moment I turn into the drive it is like turning a switch to off...

Just like turning on the highway is like turning a switch to on and finding a bunch of missed calls.

Here's a lotech way to find out if an external antenna would work... put your cell phone in your pocket, climb onto your roof, see how good your signal is.

I'm so out of my league here I wonder if some of the things I'm reading are martians communicating!