How to setup wireless access on smoothwall router?

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Published on 2012-06-30T19:55:40Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 21:18 UTC
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I am in the process of redoing my home network, I have a couple of ipads and laptops that I need wireless access for. I plan to use this old computer as my router with smoothwall installed on it. My question is, how do I go about setting up wireless access on my network using a computer with smoothwall on it?

Sounds like the best way is to connect a regular WAP to the network. Cany anyone confirm?

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