On 22 Jul 2006 09:46:24 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote in
<e9ss5g01jss@news1.newsguy.com>:

>You are correct, it's not ... in the context of the information I should
>have known, but didn't. It would have been just right had wireless
>interfaces connected to the air in the same way that they would connect
>to a common bus. My mistake was assuming a wireless technology that
>was made the way I would have made it.

There are good reasons it wasn't done that way.

>| Running any sort of DHCP on separate bridged networks is asking for
>| trouble, as I explained.
>
>Of course. DHCP would be just for sloppy convenience. If it was
>part of the same ethernet broadcast segment, then redundant DHCP
>servers would be configured to all give IP addresses within this
>one big subnet. All such addresses would work anywhere on it just
>like the 1200 node switched networks I've built wired.

That wouldn't work with your topology even with wires.

>| Again, the WGPS606 is a WCB (Wireless Client Bridge), plus a network
>| switch and network printer server.
>
>I've found that it, too, has the same cheap flimsy permanent 2dbi antenna.
>I'll look around for a WCB with a removeable antenna with a standard RF
>connector. Then I can make or buy a gain antenna if I need one (which
>I have expected is a definite possibility).

Linksys WET54G
<http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout &cid=1115416826519&packedargs=site%3DUS&pagename=L inksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper>

(Sorry, but I don't have time to debate the rest of your post.)

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