Just finished doing a wireless LAN for for Dizayini Limited (my brother Albert's company) in Kampala.
I used products from Level-one to setup the LAN.
- A wireless AP connecting to an Ethernet adapter on a windows XP desktop computer via cat6 cable. This Windows XP computer also acts as the gateway to the Internet using a wireless dial up 3G dongle from a local Telco (Orange Uganda). So i went ahead to share the connection on the LAN card giving it the address 192.168.0.1. DNS details are automatically picked up from Orange on dial up.
- Level one wireless cards added to three other Dell optiplex 360 desktops running windows XP and configured with static addresses in the 192.168.0.0/24 range with their gateway as 192.168.0.1. I proceeded to share folders on their D drives to allow sharing of graphic files between computers. Note that I faced a problem with the wireless cards on the Dell Optiplexes as the screens kept going blue with errors; sorted this out by eliminating the level one drivers and using Realtek drivers.
Basic solution to networking a small company in the suburbs of Kampala.
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