Linking Wired and Wireless network...

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I'm looking for some info that will allow better support for my 
students. 

My College currently has been using a single T-1 line for the past 5 
years, and this provides access to the whole campus including 8 
labs in my building. The MIS department has recently added 3 
Wireless access points that are each connected to separate DSL 
lines. No interconection between any of these. The President 
wanted campus wide wireless access, so MIS did this. Solves 
Presidents objective, but nothing for the classrooms.

I did a test after purchasing my own wireless card. In downloading 
the same file from the same remote site with a wired and wireless 
machine. The wireless machine got 40K per second, while the wired 
machine got 8K per second. 

The campus is setup by MIS with 4 Class C networks running on a 
single physical network (no subnets, no routing.) Only router is the 
one that connects to the T-1 line, and it has a 10MB ethernet 
interface. Three of the 4 networks are in the dhcpd pool, so I end up 
with classroom have a mix of all 3 networks. Without added routing 
entries, traffic would have to go thru the 10MB rounter instead of 
directly. 

So, working with MIS isn't an option at this point. I was thinking of 
adding a wireless card to my fedora machine which also runs a 
squid proxy server used by my lab. 

Is there something that would help this, or am I wasting my time..

Thanks.

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  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
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