[SATLUG] Deli owner wishes to set up own hotspot cheaply

[Enrique Sanchez Vela]

I have a silly question...

 why does it have to be more complicated than just
powering up an access point without encryption and
mac-filtering options?.


  just power the AP, setup the WLAN id and viola! 

regards,
Enrique.

 



--- Samuel Leon <leon36 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> David Power wrote:
> >> Mary Yatti wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hey guys,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm looking for the most inexpensive way to set
> up
> >>> free wifi for a deli in a rural area of Bandera.
>  It's
> >>> near a resort and does lots of business.  The
> >>> snowbirds are always looking for a hotspot to
> email
> >>> their grandchildren, etc....  It's kinda funny
> because
> >>> all these silverheads are addicted to the
> Internet.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas gladly welcome.
> >>>
> >>> Mary
> >>>       
> >> Hi Mary:
> >>
> >> I think someone else already mentioned access,
> but if you do have
> >> access, you are also going to want an access
> point with a guaranteed
> >> strong signal.  I put in a link to an outdoor
> access point with a 400mw
> >> (milli-watt) signal.  It makes things easier. 
> HTH, Dennis
> >>
> >>
>
http://store.microcom.us/wireless-lan--access-point---client-bridge--
> >> outdoor.html
> >> --
> >>     
> >
> > I've had problems with the engenius if you try to
> get a lot of data (10 meg
> > +) that's encrypted (you do want to encrypt your
> data) through them. 
> > If you are just using them to connect to a couple
> of meg uplink they work
> > well and are very cost effective. 
> > I've found that a pair of the 3220 ext make a nice
> inexpensive point to
> > point backhaul platform. As long as you don't try
> to cram to much data
> > through them.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> Speaking of security, I have a question.  Are there
> any 
> applications/tools available to help prevent people
> from running ARP 
> spoofing attacks inside a wireless lan?  I find that
> this is a common 
> method for gathering user names and passwords. 
> There are many simple 
> GUI apps out there that make these style of
> attacks/packet sniffing very 
> easy to carry out.  There used to be a video on a
> website of a guy 
> running ettercap and sniffing out user names and
> passwords from various 
> SSL protected webmail sites.  I can't find the video
> now though.  It 
> totally blew my mind the first time I saw it.  I am
> just wondering if 
> there would be a way to automatically black list a
> MAC once it is 
> detected to be running in promiscuous mode or
> something?  I am guessing 
> that there would be no way to blacklist the *right*
> MAC once an ARP 
> spoof attack has been detected? 
> 
> Anyone have any info on this?  I thought about
> running my own public 
> hotspot before but I feel bad knowing that I
> wouldn't know how to 
> properly protect my clients from such attacks.
> 
> Sam
> -- 
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