On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:01 -0500, Andy Grosser wrote:
Apologies in advance if this may not quite be the proper list for such a question...
My company is investigating the use of wireless in a couple of our conference rooms. Aside from limiting the scope of reception with various directional antennae, does anyone have any suggestions or pointers for other ways to limit the propagation of signals (i.e. special shielding paint, panels or other wall coatings)?
Unless you are going to convert the conference room into a Faraday Cage to block all radio transmissions in or out, it's not going to be worth the effort. And of course, a faraday cage will block cell phone reception as well. You probably better off putting the access points in a DMZ type subnet and using VPN to access the main networks. Enable WEP and shutdown SSID broadcasting. If the radios of the access points can be controlled, reduce the transmission power to limit signal propagation. -- Stephen L Johnson stephen.johnson@mail.state.ar.us Unix Systems Administrator sjohnson@monsters.org Department of Information Systems State of Arkansas 501-682-4339