home network

[michaelpi]

hey guys,
well im moving to a very big hosue here soon and i need you guys help on seting up a netowrk.

im looking for wifi over the whloe house and some outside.
a firewall (ipcop or smoothwall)
10/100/1000 lan
a hp netowrk printer.
on the netowrk i would have 10-15 pc's with cat6 cables and 6 laptops running wifi (all have 802.11g)
with the house being so big i would need more than one wifi ap
i have about $500-$600 to spend

[TalRW]

hey guys,
well im moving to a very big hosue here soon and i need you guys help on seting up a netowrk.

im looking for wifi over the whloe house and some outside.
a firewall (ipcop or smoothwall)
10/100/1000 lan
a hp netowrk printer.
on the netowrk i would have 10-15 pc's with cat6 cables and 6 laptops running wifi (all have 802.11g)
with the house being so big i would need more than one wifi ap
i have about $500-$600 to spend

You might be able to get the smoothwall/ipcop box for free if you look hard enough. Check like churches/schools/family members for any sort of PC that is old and obsolete (or so they think) and see if you could get them to donate it to you for use. That would save you some money.

[klingens]

Get some WRT54GL and run them in WDS mode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System

Connecting the APs via Wire is of course more secure and error proof, but costs more too. Depends how many APs you need I guess

[michaelpi]

well i alredy have a computer for the firewall

[michaelpi]

any one have aney ideals