One of my next steps will be adding another dedicated guest router for 802.11G devices but that’s not a huge priority. My next goal was having a place to isolate guests and hook up older, insecure devices that only work with WEP and/or 802.11B. Most of them on the used market seem to be 10mbit. Another challenge is actually finding a 10/100 hub. I was unfortunate to purchase such a device but at least it was only a few bucks. One caveat however is a switch labeled as a hub. When I only have 2 devices plugged into the hub, there should not be a performance hit from this. The hub provides me this because all of the traffic is spewed across all of the ports. First, I wanted to provide a single point where I could sniff ALL traffic going in or out of my network. I had a couple of goals with this layout. INSIDE ROUTER(WPA enabled) Most protected systems SWITCH Guest access point(802.11B, WEP devices) & virused systems I’ve flashed these routers with DD-WRT for now since I don’t have a good grasp on OpenWrt quite yet and don’t need the extra functionality for the moment but I plan to start experimenting with OpenWrt a bit more at a later date. Whatever the case, their loss is my gain. If I want to go REALLY fast, I’ll just plug in a wire, that’s always going to be faster than wireless anyways. Personally, I don’t see the need for 802.11N for everything. In the matter of 2-3 months or so, I’ve managed to snag about 10 of them at bargain basement prices. Sometimes I get the power supply with them, other times I pick up extras somewhere else. The prices have been as low as $7 up to about $13.
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The routers I have found range from WRT54Gv1’s to WRT54G-TM’s and routers as new as WRT54Gv6’s. Some stuff I can understand like the network hub for instance but other stuff like the wrt54g’s are a bit of a surprise. It’s unbelievable what people are throwing out in my area. I have been hitting a lot of thrift stores lately. This is why I decided to rebuild my network. Even though my main computers are macs, I do think that cross platform or mac viruses will become a more regular occurrence. This got me a little spooked about the rest of my network. One of them was silently doing “ click fraud” in the background at the rate of 1000 clicks per minute or so. Typically I haven’t had much concern for other devices on my network but then I ran into a recent rash of viruses that are much more sophisticated than usual. I’ve been working on a lot of virused computers lately.