[ale] Wireless Design Suggestions

[Matty]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Well, you'd want something out-of-band to do the actual shutting off - a
> timer would certainly fit the bill.

You could always find something with X10 support if you need more 
control. I always wanted to muck with X10 to automate my life. :)

> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 00:51, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Hogg, Russell E wrote:
>>
>>>All of those suggestions sound good to me.
>>>If possible you may want to consider dumping DHCP as well.
>>>
>>>And using a different range of IPs internally than the standard.
>>>(might be more trouble than it's worth)
>>>
>>>also if all the time up time doesn't matter grab a timer from walmart and
>>>shut the wirless down during off hours..
>>
>>Timer????
>>
>>Sounds like a cron job that contains a call to ifconfig to me....
>>
>>Then again, that get's back to using a cheap linux box and a card for 
>>the access point.
>>
>>
>>
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>>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
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