#275. INTARWEB

Whoop! Just sorted internet access at home. Now to find some practical use for it...

Update: A brief description of how we're doing it. A friend from work lives across the square, about 70m away and in direct line of sight. Seeing as the company is paying for his internet and he's a generous type he agreed to share the connection (he's with Irish Broadband).

So I bought a pair of SMC Directional Antennae and hooked them up to a Linksys WRT54G. A quick flash of Sveasoft's Alchemy firmware replacement and I had it running in "client mode" meaning it's routing between the wireless network (whatever's coming in off the antenna) and betsie (or whatever else is plugged into its LAN ports).

And Bob's your wireless neighbour.

The only hurdle was getting the two routers (the WRT54G and its counterpart, a DL-624 talking to each other securely. They couldn't agree on any form of WPA, so we're settling, a little unhappily maybe, for 128-bit WEP with MAC address access control.