need help upgrading small business wifi network

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Our small business currently has 3 wireless access points around the building, each with their own SSID. Security is done with WEP (ick) and MAC address filtering (double ick).

We are trying to reconfigure the setup, with these goals:

wifi roaming between the access points
user-based authentication that isn't as annoying as MAC address filtering.

1) The entire building is hardwired with ethernet, so I assume it should be easy to set up the routers to act as one big network, but I can't figure out how. Can someone point me in the right direction? The routers are consumer-grade linksys routers, is it possible to do this without getting new hardware?

2) For security, we will probably upgrade to WPA2, and I'm thinking of using the Enterprise version so that users can log in with a username, instead of having a single key (so if an employee leaves or something, their access can be removed). We have several on-site Windows servers, can one of them be set up as a RADIUS server, or is that best left to a dedicated machine (again, using existing hardware is good).

need help upgrading small business wifi network

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Published on 2010-05-03T15:40:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 15:48 UTC
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Our small business currently has 3 wireless access points around the building, each with their own SSID. Security is done with WEP (ick) and MAC address filtering (double ick).

We are trying to reconfigure the setup, with these goals:

wifi roaming between the access points
user-based authentication that isn't as annoying as MAC address filtering.

1) The entire building is hardwired with ethernet, so I assume it should be easy to set up the routers to act as one big network, but I can't figure out how. Can someone point me in the right direction? The routers are consumer-grade linksys routers, is it possible to do this without getting new hardware?

2) For security, we will probably upgrade to WPA2, and I'm thinking of using the Enterprise version so that users can log in with a username, instead of having a single key (so if an employee leaves or something, their access can be removed). We have several on-site Windows servers, can one of them be set up as a RADIUS server, or is that best left to a dedicated machine (again, using existing hardware is good).

need help upgrading small business wifi network

Posted by Henry Jackson on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Henry Jackson
Published on 2010-05-03T15:40:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 17:48 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 295

Filed under:

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Our small business currently has 3 wireless access points around the building, each with their own SSID. Security is done with WEP (ick) and MAC address filtering (double ick).

We are trying to reconfigure the setup, with these goals:

wifi roaming between the access points
user-based authentication that isn't as annoying as MAC address filtering.

1) The entire building is hardwired with ethernet, so I assume it should be easy to set up the routers to act as one big network, but I can't figure out how. Can someone point me in the right direction? The routers are consumer-grade linksys routers, is it possible to do this without getting new hardware?

2) For security, we will probably upgrade to WPA2, and I'm thinking of using the Enterprise version so that users can log in with a username, instead of having a single key (so if an employee leaves or something, their access can be removed). We have several on-site Windows servers, can one of them be set up as a RADIUS server, or is that best left to a dedicated machine (again, using existing hardware is good).

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