I probably should create a new thread since this is way off topic from the orginal post but I'm sure the poster would be interested in reading any of this technical talk out loud ideas I'm having about my own network design/implimentation.

I was just in the middle of reading a few pdf manuals on the microtik site. They certainly look very impressive, when I checked my email and found your latest reply.

While PPPoE would be a good idea for bandwidth management, it would make setting up my routing idea a little more messy.

I want to be able to offer joe bloggs windows PC with wi-fi card and external antenna the option of giving his entire wired ethernet their own IPs while only taking up 1 on the main wireless access point (to get around the limit of 32 nodes per regular access point, if I get one of those).

ie:

Joe's wi-fi adaptor is assigned 10.1.1.2, then Joe could use network range 10.1.2.0/24 for his wired lan. If he enabled IP forwarding on his connecting Wi-Fi PC, he could use a default router connected to the main access point to manage all the route tables. He's only got to set his wired PC's to use his Wi-Fi connected PCs IP. This means Joe Bloggs get 254 IP's to use on his network making them all directly available on the Wi-Fi network without having to maintain his own routing table to connect to Sarah Bloggs network via 10.1.1.3 (for network 10.1.3.0/24) etc...

Anyway before I go read some more manuals and VPN junk on how to connect multiple private IP lans... and MTU frames/overheads/fragmentation... I was also reading you site a few minutes ago on your new G upgrade and saw the photos on the roof. Did you put some self amalgamating tape and silocon on those RF joints? I heard you mentioned the nasty oxidation word RUST on your connectors. Where they not already sealed up?

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Also setting a short preamble helps the latency issue with amplifiers. Although some cards don't have long enough to make sense of traffic in hevy congestion when using a short preamble.